Whither the Way

Ernest Renan. "What is a Nation?"

A nation's existence is, if you will pardon the metaphor, a daily plebiscite, just as an individual's existence is a perpetual affirmation of life.

If a nation is like an individual, is it too subject to mortality? It gives new poignancy to "withering away of the state".

And so for day 283
23.09.2007