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Sep. 30th, 2010 12:23 pmToday the twins turn two. (Officially in about 40 minutes.)
Sep. 30th, 2010
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Sep. 30th, 2010 03:52 pmRe: Elizabeth Moon and her views on citizenship: Gord Sellar nails it to the wall with a flourish. This is what I was flailing toward trying to say at the time.
"We’ve seen this kind of abstractive state-fetishizing before, of course, and the thing that hasn’t seemed to sink in is that it leads to bad situations. Very bad situations. [...] One reason the talk of honest shopkeepers and duty to the state makes me nervous is how popular such phrases have been in political fascism."
And it gets better from there.
"We’ve seen this kind of abstractive state-fetishizing before, of course, and the thing that hasn’t seemed to sink in is that it leads to bad situations. Very bad situations. [...] One reason the talk of honest shopkeepers and duty to the state makes me nervous is how popular such phrases have been in political fascism."
And it gets better from there.