Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)
Bruce Geerdes <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Peter T. Chattaway < petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]> wrote: > I fail to see that. How has this "big, big problem" exhibited itself in >> undesirable ways? >> > > I haven't been keeping a catalogue, but FWIW, thinking the U.S. is God's > special gift to the Earth is a particular (and not uncommon) form of > "exceptionalism" (and Palin did make an explicitly pro-exceptionalism > statement or two in her statement), and to the degree that any of America's > less-desirable policies have been motivated or buttressed by a belief in > exceptionalism, there would seem to be some overlap there. Is this better or worse than your run-of-the-mill nationalism? Or do you also believe in some sort of US "exceptionalism", that when it American exhibits a common trait it's better or worse than when others do it? -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot