ED BOYLE CLASSIC RANT RE ETHNICITY NATIONALISM WAR

I suppose he could have told him if the war was over years later. We used to all come from small ethnically tightly identified groups with strict religious observation. If you read James Joyce you get the feeling of his being stifled from anearly dead culture. Right wing orthodox judaism and saudi cultur has similar effect. Times havechanged and prejudices have loosened but can never disappear. We are in a conservative phase where rots are important. Childhood memory is a great thing whether from center of politics or edge most families were strongly effected by historical occurrences. I only can trace that personally back in my irish and my wife's german/russian roots back to 1870s emiigration to USA and Russia post famine/franco prussian war. Each war/revolution in russia//England/canada threw someone in another trauma. I left America in 1989. I lost my desk job through great financial crisis but Ihave so much benefit from this change in life. Crisis brings growth. Stultifying cultural, national atmosphere teaches little. Europe is now, like America with Trump in an identity crisis. The 60s were result of post colonial, post hitlerian antiracial politics. Now they have been taken ad absurdum and are being fought. Identity is needed in dire financial and crisis times and the left insists on continues linearly forward, instead of taking a deep breath as the rest of the globe, china, russia, arabs heed their identities. The jewish identity is still strong. Hold onto it without defensiveness. Times will certainly get worse before they get better in this respect. If WWII ws focused on jews in Europe the current conflicts have Israel/arabs/iran/russia//USA. The solution to the last war was jewish statehood. Now it is drawing the region into numerous wars through jewish american support -neo cons- of proisrael policy without regard to American interest. Never Again is then an over aggressive battle cry which boomerangs, leading to similar results as before. Of course everywhere in boomer generation idealistic extremism reigns. Lets hope we can survive this crisis phase of history better than last one through cool heads, perhaps chinese and Russian(whose crisis passed in 90s).