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By Jingos, The Australian Values ‘Problem’ Resides in Our Homes, Not Our Hearts
"Drivers with Aussie flags on their cars 'more racist' research shows"
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By Ben Eltham on April 21, 2017 Australian Politics
Banging the nationalist drum didn’t work for Tony Abbott. It won’t work for Malcolm Turnbull either, writes Ben Eltham.
It was Samuel Johnson who first gave us the famous quote, “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”. Johnson is thought to have uttered the quote in April 1775. He was decrying the nationalist tone of British politics .. https://www.routledge.com/A-Political-Biography-of-Samuel-Johnson/Hudson/p/book/9781138661400 .. at the outset of the American rebellion.
Johnson’s pamphlet The Patriot .. https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=OCLC04895231&id=3VPJAUnKKhYC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false .. remains one of the most acute discussions of this perennial topic.
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“A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of secret influence, of dangerous counsels, of violated rights, and encroaching usurpation.
This practice is no certain note of patriotism. To instigate the populace with rage beyond the provocation, is to suspend publick happiness, if not to destroy it. He is no lover of his country, that unnecessarily disturbs its peace. Few errors and few faults of government, can justify an appeal to the rabble …”
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Johnson’s remarks have seldom seemed so relevant, as democratic governments across the Western world march in lock-step to the beat of a nationalist drum.
In Britain, in the United States, France, and in Australia, political leaders are disseminating discontent, propagating reports of secret influence, and instigating the populace with rage.
More .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132128180
"Drivers with Aussie flags on their cars 'more racist' research shows"
(IMAGE: DonkeyHotey, Flickr)
By Ben Eltham on April 21, 2017 Australian Politics
Banging the nationalist drum didn’t work for Tony Abbott. It won’t work for Malcolm Turnbull either, writes Ben Eltham.
It was Samuel Johnson who first gave us the famous quote, “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”. Johnson is thought to have uttered the quote in April 1775. He was decrying the nationalist tone of British politics .. https://www.routledge.com/A-Political-Biography-of-Samuel-Johnson/Hudson/p/book/9781138661400 .. at the outset of the American rebellion.
Johnson’s pamphlet The Patriot .. https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=OCLC04895231&id=3VPJAUnKKhYC&pg=PA324&lpg=PA324&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false .. remains one of the most acute discussions of this perennial topic.
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“A man sometimes starts up a patriot, only by disseminating discontent, and propagating reports of secret influence, of dangerous counsels, of violated rights, and encroaching usurpation.
This practice is no certain note of patriotism. To instigate the populace with rage beyond the provocation, is to suspend publick happiness, if not to destroy it. He is no lover of his country, that unnecessarily disturbs its peace. Few errors and few faults of government, can justify an appeal to the rabble …”
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Johnson’s remarks have seldom seemed so relevant, as democratic governments across the Western world march in lock-step to the beat of a nationalist drum.
In Britain, in the United States, France, and in Australia, political leaders are disseminating discontent, propagating reports of secret influence, and instigating the populace with rage.
More .. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=132128180
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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