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