…because power has left the nation-state; politics has been overcome by financial flows. -Zygmunt Bauman
Footnotes 2 Plato
"The safest general characterization of the philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -Alfred North Whitehead
http://fora.tv/2012/11/28/Ecologist_Peter_Warshall_Enchanted_by_the_Sun
Couldn’t it be said that we witnessed a return of the nation state under Bush? It’s this oscillation between America as 1) a faceless corporation and 2) a totalist state reminiscent of nazism that I find so juvenile in contemporary leftist debate.