Nationalism

What a weird topic. I remember Taylor saying a few weeks ago how nationalism is bullshit and is the cause of much evil. When I thought about how much I loved Albania/Bosnia and what I would do to protect it, his theory sounded plausible. However, it's an interesting topic that I'll have to do more research on to actually develop my own viewpoint. I have a link here which is basically a very long dialogue between a few intellectuals debating whether nationalism is beautiful/terrible.

http://www.bestandworst.com/53/nationalism-depends-nation-nature-53433.html

I'm only like done with one-fifth of the reading if you look at the vertical scroll button. That's pretty crazy, I'll have to bookmark it. I'll also have to begin looking throughout CATO's archives, since we all know the CATO institute is amazing. Damn I can't wait for college it's quite possible I'll be the only student there not partying, but sadly studying all the time.

I need to improve my shitty vocabulary while I'm at it. I just remembered some segment of the Colbert Report that I liked where he supposedly "exposed" some douche-nozzle for false-opposition. It's funny.

"STEPHEN COLBERT: I've got a theory about you, sir. You were the counterterrorism czar. . . then you had a very public "falling out" with the White House, then they "criticized you" and "impugned your character" and now you're a "public gadfly" of the Administration... Isn't this just deep cover? Isn't this sort of black ops stuff? Aren't you just red herring out there to try to smoke out America's enemies now?

FORMER COUNTERTERRORISM CZAR RICHARD CLARKE: Well, if I were, you just destroyed it.

COLBERT: I tell you what. If you are -- deny it!

CLARKE: It's not true.

COLBERT: Loud and clear."

The audience was laughing, but not in the sense that they understood what Colbert was saying. They probably thought he was just being that "funny Colbert" guy they knew, but I guess this is serious side and it shows. I thought he was pretty smart, but then Taylor was like, "Dude, then you don't even know what smart really is. These people have to like dumb their shit down for the stupid people to understand." Well, I guess I'm pretty dumb because I didn't understand most of it since I had to look up some key words. All I had to look up was, impugned, gadfly, and red herring, because I had absolutely no clue what they meant but after I figured it out I was like, "Damn, that's good."

The best song ever, "Andain - Beautiful Things"