(10-18-2021, 11:59 PM)cookie2 date Wrote:I remember the unseemly rugby scrum to get out of the picture theatre before being forced to stand for the national anthem at the end of the evening program. ?Errr, I'm not sure whether to take that light heartedly or with shock and awe! :o
Should I roll out the player piano, and turn on the limelights?
On a serious note, there are good and bad aspects of both sides of this old argument. Nationalism had it's place, but utilitarian as it may be it can lead to awful things, it's major modern critics talk about how divisive it can be retrospectively, suppressing identity, etc., etc..
Yet with some irony, to me at least, it's never been clearer than at the moment that the very inverse is divisive as well!
Perhaps it's not the what but the how, or perhaps it's that the what has become so confused and blended that it has almost become ubiquitous?
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"