Can there instead be a way of defining a ‘nation’ beyond the boundaries of history and cultural similarities? Or is there even value still in cultivating such an idea—a nation of people—when the collective human race is being taken toward an inevitable connectedness?
While there are mental gymnasts struggling to ‘establish’ and ‘develop’ what they would call ‘culture’ (which oddly enough is not something that can be manipulated like a theory), there are also those who run beyond the edges of the metropolitan to retain their more natural senses, to develop an individual culture (clearly paradoxical, however) free from the said manipulation of the others.
What an interesting time: now seems to be of this new deity called ‘modernity’ and many of its followers can read but not comprehend.