At 05:59 23/02/2006, indrajit gupta wrote:
I put to you the case that the nation states are willing themselves out of
existence. Think WTO, EU, ASEAN, ad nauseam ad infinitum.
just fyi, the world values survey shows that india, turkey and the US are
linked together by their uniquely high levels of nationalism, religiousity
and optimism. the godless, depressed post-national liberals in europe look
on in horror.
-r
1. http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/ - sorry, i don't have the link
directly to the graph, which plots these things against social and economic
wellbeing; the US is the outlier to the general trend that affluence
reduces nationalism and religiosity.
