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IPFS News Link • Olympic Winter Games South Korea 2018

Korea, the Winter Olympics, and the Spirit of Queen Min

• AntiWar.com by Justin Raimondo

We are told by practically everyone that nationalism is an archaic, aggressive, and downright evil sentiment, one that causes wars, racism, bigotry, and probably the common cold as well. And we get this from both the right and the left. Nationalism of any kind, we are told, is a dangerous atavism, a throwback to primitive "tribalism" and an insult to sacred "modernity." While this nonsensical view is pretty widespread throughout the Western world, it is especially dominant – at least among the political class – here in the United States, where it is routinely alleged that America isn't a place, it isn't the American people: America, they solemnly intone, is an Idea. What sort of idea, or, rather, whose idea, seems to be a matter of some dispute: but, in any case, we aren't really an actual country, according to the wise and wondrous elites who let us know what to think, so much as we're an abstraction, floating in the ether, like a cloud in the sky imprinted with the image of a giant welcome mat.


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