From: honkfish@yabbs
To: Steyr@yabbs
Subject: Country
Date: Fri Feb 25 12:33:08 1994


What you percieve to be your "country" is nothing but what you have been 
told id your country. This comes from the state, which uses the useful 
little tool of "patriotism" to legitimise its control over a population.

This is not the same as being proud of your city, family or region or 
whatever. It's a nebulous concept imposed on you by others and you are 
told that if necessary you must die for that concept..

You must remember that there are no self-suffiecient nations anymore. To a 
greater or lesser degree, there is no "national economy" to speak of in 
most nations. There is an integrated world econmoy.. From the Brazilian 
coffee you drink in the morning to the table made from Malaysian wood you 
rest your mug on, no country exists in isolation. When the price of iron 
changes on the world commodity markets determines which  families willl 
eat this week and which will be left with no income as firms shift their 
purchases to the cheaper option (often without knowing from where the iron 
came from). 

I could go on for hours.

James.