[longtermmemmory]

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[Jeff Chandler]

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[PoisedWoman]

then what is to keep us from descending to increasingly narrower and ever more exclusive categories of allegiance, such as our particular class or race or region or trade association?

Descend, huh? We shouldn't descend to being Americans? Marin-ated blather!

[beckett]

Oh, by the way, for anyone who, like me, didn't know which man Harris is talking when he writes about a "culture [which] passed on a story of a man ordering the execution of his two sons," it was Lucius Junius Brutus, founder of the Roman Republic, 509 BC. I looked it up.

[TopQuark]

Great. Thanks for the post.