Wednesday, August 20, 2008

A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.   - William Ralph Inge

2 comments:

Esfand` said...

:D cant agree more!!.... how tribal we still are ... still stuck up in the couple of initial centuries of our civilizations ... mine is better than urs ... I am better than u ... nations is one of the similar ideas... so is family ... so is country.... we can see the broader picture... can we? :P

Im glad to know you! :P
n this reminds me of Bertrand Russell's ...skeptical essays... where he says something like this that; an individuals delusion is called madness, where as collective delusion of society forms nationalism, patriotism and is considered worth fighting and killing for .... huh!

=] have a good day!

Born in 1355 said...

Bitterly true...yet we continue to prove it right everyday! My grandma always said:
زنده رو ول کردین مرده رو چسبیدین!