Jesse Helms at the UN
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seemed to assume that trend #2 was prevalently active in the U.S. while trend #1 governed the rest of the world, (he may have thought especially of the Eurozone).
The 'intermediating trend' seems to be formulated too abstractly for me to apply it meaningfully to my reality; I agree, however, that a long-term survival of the nation state is a paradoxical assumption ... <g>.
The nation state and national politics, that is drama and comedy, and it is played in the vernacular and only therefore, that is, only for a practical reason, confined in national states. (Events form history enter the vocabulary of the above cited 'vernacular', thereby making Austrian, Svitzerduitsh and German three distinct languages in the sense of this discussion).
Regards MNI. |
