Michael Ignatieff Quotes

By Extrapolating A Little From Freud, It Becomes Possible To Think Of Nationalism As A Kind Of Narcissism. A Nationalist Takes The Neutral Facts About A People - Their Language, Habitat, Culture, Tradition And History- And Turns These Facts Into A Narrative, Whose Purpose Is To Illuminate The Self-consciousness Of A Group, To Enable Them To Think Of Themselves As A Nation With A Claim To Self-determination. A Nationalist, In Other Words, Takes "minor Differences"- Indifferent In Themselves- And Transforms Them Into Major Differences. For This Purpose, Traditions Are Invented, A Glorious Past Is Gilded And Refurbished For Public Consumption, And A People Who Might Not Have Thought Of Themselves As A People At All Suddenly Begin To Dream Of Themselves As A Nation.

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