Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Rolling nationalsm
So to fabricate a successful nationalism, one need great leader who himself is driven with the urge to drive the nation through prosperity/doom high way, will find facts and fictions to sew blanket of beliefs. Nationalism takes shape if the leader can fire the imaginations of people with those beliefs. And it needs reinforcement of beliefs and updating. To avoid dilution of nationalism prayer, promise, pledge etc are used as prop.
Sometime we ordinary people do not understand where our leaders are taking us. Germans believed Herr Hitler was taking them to prosperity, but the dream turned sour. Many Indians had doubt about intentions and ability of Mahatma Gandhi, but gradually changed their views.
New ideas and ideals often breaks nationalism, sometimes make another. Examples are aplenty in east disintegrated Europe. Now Euro is big experiment in Europe. Ignoramus is fascinated because it is a collective intellectual drive against all odds to unite countries of Europe, wish them big success.
(Shall I continue?)
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