Re: nationalism and intellectuals.
Well, it also depends on how deep you are prepared to go in considering nationalism.
Most important, are you considering nationalism an ideology here? If so, one must bear in mind that nationalism is not, per se, an ideology. Ideologies do build around the concept of nation, not the other way around. Or at least, that is how it is under normal circumtances.
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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–
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