Quote:
Originally Posted by Erasmus
How do you see your Nation, ideally ?
My dream is the reconstruction of the Spanish Catholic Empire; the Holy Empire of Charles V in Europe:
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You should know what this tells about nationalism.. zero.
Empire and history, there is
no concept of nation in those maps.
Rather, the first map represents the draining of resources of the nation of Spain to maintain the dinastic rights of a monarchy.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–