483 – Topics

00:03 Taboo topic: Toronto financial leaders, reactions to American election, ridiculing Trump’s theatrics, political policy vs political theatrics, American nationalism, upcoming European elections, nationalism as taboo, identifying with the common man, William Gladstone and Benjamin Disraeli

17:20 Theatres of the absurd: political theatre seen as derisive, misplaced trust in media election coverage, the drama of nationalism, the Economist’s New Nationalism, nationalism as racism, destruction of the nation-state, the necessity of national identity, elite derides nationalism as vulgar, competing national interests, Hitler as the identification point of nationalism, civic nationalism vs genetic nationalism, America’s nationalism is civic nationalism

34:35 No I without the We: patriotism vs nationalism, Sir Walter Scott, patriotism as attachment, no necessary conflict between individualism and nationalism, nation as the proximate family, wars between nations, wars within nations, world government, the church of climate change

48:05 Nationalism on stage: nationalism as theatre, Jean Chretien, Brian Mulroney, Pierre Trudeau, Disraeli and Gladstone’s misfortune and catastrophe, Stephen Harper’s lack of drama, radical Islamic terrorism as a taboo issue, new immigrants repudiate Western values rather than embracing them

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