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It is remarkable how much a thirty-secondpictogram of nationalism can reveal of one sunderstanding. I ask my students todraw such a pictogram in the beginning ofthe discussion (on nationalism). Theyinvariably draw flags and/or people withguns. When I ask them for a pictogram ofnationalism at the end of the discussion,the emblem changes completely: they draw a globe andlittle unarmed people, who sometime say things like: oh, myidentity! For flags and guns do not even begin to express what iscentral and most significant about nationalism... Nationalism and the Mind - Liah Greenfeldquoted in What isa Nation - Nadesan Satyendra I desire that I write for myself alone. It is whenthat which is buried in me finds expression in words, that I myself cometo truly know what was buried in me. It may well be that the reason that Iwrite is because I feel that I may discover more and more and come to know what else maybe inside me. As I continue to write, and as more and more experiencesunfold from within me, and as I become subject to these experiences, itseems to me that I may, in a way, make it possible for me to know who Iam.There are those who find that the words that I write tounderstand about myself, also help them to understand themselves. They are myreaders. When they hear that the key that I fashioned for my lock, mayalso open their locks, they come in search of my house. When they come, itappears to me that it is entirely appropriate that I should share myunderstanding...So that a writer may protect this nature, this wayof life, I value freedom of expression as the most importantfreedom. I cannot say that at the present time I have sufficient courageor awareness of truth to practice that which I have so easilydescribed. These are qualities that I will need to develop. I believe that it willbe possible for me to do so... Sundara Ramasamy (translation byNadesan Satyendra from the Tamiloriginal) ..Leader presumes follower.Follower presumes choice... In a very real sense, followers lead by choosing where to be led.Where an organised community will be led is inseparablefrom the shared values and beliefs of its members... - What is a Nation? Nations are as much cultural as political formsand the creation of a unique highculture of world significance is often central to their legitimation... 1. Nation building is rightly, though at times excessively,associated with political andsocial processes. Yet, it is notconfined to national liberation movements, charismatic leaders and liberators,wars of national independence, and the struggle of national entities to emergeto independence from a position of relative powerlessness and subservience to adominant power. Nations are as much cultural as political forms, and thecreation of a unique highculture of world significance is often central to their legitimation. True,the effects of culture are not as clearly quantifiable as those of politics. Theeffect of Verdi, for example, on Italian nationalism is hardly as clear cut as that ofGaribaldi.Wagner'simpact on German nationalism is amorphous alongside the concrete politicalachievement ofBismarck.William Butler Yeats' influence on Irish nationalism is not as definable asthat ofMichaelCollins or Eamon De Valera. The inspiration ofChaim Nachman Bialikon Jewish nationalism is diffuse in comparison with that of Herzl.Yet it may be argued justly that artists have equalif notgreater importance. They above allexpress the nation's distinctiveness; their creativity ispart of the momentum to independence; they are themselvessymbols and icons of the nation's unique creative power;they regeneratetheir nation morally and speak for its heart and conscience. -John Hutchinson, European Institute, London School of Economics andDavid Aberbach, Department of Jewish Studies,McGill University, Quebec, Canada inNations Nationalism, Volume 4, 19992. .. , . . Velupillai Pirabakaranis concerned to tell a story... It is a story abouta nation without a state - atransstate nation of more than 80 million Tamils living todayin many lands and across distant seas...... But it is not a story simply about the past. It is a storyabout the present and of a trans state nation ofpeople who are committedto rid themselves of the divisionsamongstthem, be it rooted in race, caste, religion or gender ... ...There are victims, there are executioners, andthere are bystanders... Unless we wrench free from being what welike to call objective , we are closer psychologically, whether welike to admit it or not, to theexecutioner than tothe victim... It is a story about thegrowing togetherness of a trans state nation of people,a nation without a state,in a digital age which has rendered State boundariesincreasingly porous and where deep rooted kinship tiesare finding fresh avenues for expression... ...when our words begin to coincide withour deeds, principle emerges with power to influence. Wealso begin to learn something aboutour own dharma or own way of harmony ... said Pilate confronted with a mighty messenger of thetruth, not jesting surely, not in a spirit of shallowlightness, but turning away from the Christ with theimpatience of the disillusioned soul for those who stilluse high words that have lost their meaning and believein great ideals which the test of the event has provedto be fallacious... a quick tour of this website containingmore than 6500 webpagesby clicking onthe globe iconon each new page you visit MaoTse-tung quoted by Joachim Israel in the Language of Dialecticsand the Dialectics of Language- Without life, there would be nodeath; without death there would be no life. Without above,there would be no below; without below there would be no above.Without misfortune, there would be no good fortune; without goodfortune, there would be no misfortune. Without facility therewould be no difficulty; without difficulty, there would be nofacility. Without landlords there would be no tenant-peasants;without tenant-peasants, there would be no landlords. Withoutthe bourgeoisie, there would be no proletariat; withoutproletariat, there would be no bourgeoisie. Nadesan Satyendrain Reflections on the Gita, 1981 The mind..represents a stage and by no means the final stage, inan evolutionary process which has witnessed a continuingchange from inanimate to animate, from stone to plant toanimal to man, and each stage has brought with it a greaterdegree of consciousness.It is an evolutionary processwhich has resulted in the formation of the seemingly intricate fore brain ofman today and it is this self conscious mind of man which seeks to know,which seeks to understand. How is this understanding brought about? In what way does an ordinarymind comprehend?One says ordinary mind because one can neither reject nor ignore theexperience of those extraordinary beings who have arisen on this earth fromtime to time and who appear to have comprehended the total reality and whowere one with it; enlightened beings to whom time and space dissolved in aneternity which was boundless...The ordinary mind does not however comprehend the whole. It seems to dealeffectively only with parts of the total reality. It directs its attentionto discrete and separate parts of the whole. In order that it mayunderstand, the mind separates and conceptualises. It separates that whichis connected and the very process of separation distorts an understanding ofthe whole.The mind thinks in sequence in time. The present is a fleeting moment andis then gone forever. Thoughts are so much grist to its mill. Words andconcepts are the instruments of its trade. The mind seeks to clarify oneconcept by having recourse to another. It defines one word with another.There is no end to this process nor is there a starting point.The mind deals inopposites. There is no idealism without materialism; there are no meanswithout ends; there is no detachment without attachment; there is no freewill without determinism; there is no good without bad. If everything wasgood what would it mean? Presumably, we would stop using the word. The mindspeaks of theses, antithesis and synthesis and describes this as thedialectical process. And every synthesis is another thesis and gives rise toanother antithesis and yet another synthesis - and the process is endless.The mind then speaks of dialectical idealism and dialectical materialism.The need to use opposites is the need of the mind that lives in theduality of I and not I, and the mind extends this duality, extends theseseeming opposites, to everything that it deals with. And more often thanit does not stop to ask: who am'I'? Are there two 'I's - the one who asks the question and the other,about whom the question is asked?The inquiring and inquisitive mind - the restless mind, the monkey mindof man - allows one thought to play with another and ends up with what itthen triumphantly describes as a rationalisation. The mind discoversseemingly broader and broader concepts and seemingly more and more generallaws. But what is the result?From the vantage point of each new law, the mind then perceives anincreasing area of the unknown and greater and greater areas of the unknowncome within the vision of man. The search for fundamental laws, the searchfor fundamental particles, the search for absolute truths, inside the trapof duality is in the nature of an adventure to possess an ever recedingmirage... more

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