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Re: meeting of minds

From:Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
Date:Friday, December 25, 1998, 5:52
Daniel Baisden wrote:
> You wrote that in many ways you feel Boreanesian. That has come across so > clearly before you wrote about. I share that feeling, though I have no doubt > it is nowhere nearly as strongly as you, and others in similar cirmstance feel > it. I do not feel personally so much that my ethical responsibilities in life > lie toward my native land, or its government and institutions, so much as it > does toward humanity in general. I feel what I do, or do not, has impact, and > that impact knows no borders, however small a one it may be. Wouldnt it be > interesting to build a nation, a nation without a homeland, of people who are > generally sick of, or who find useless, nationalism in general. There could be > one or a thousand languages, flags, governments, united in one name, toward > ...how many principles. Just a Christmas Eve thought, needed to get out.... > Sincerely, Daniel Baisden
Very nicely put. I am the same way, a "citizen of Earth." The idea of a nation made out of people instead of territory is very interesting. I have often wondered what it would take to set up a sovereign country :D