On Mon, September 25, 2006 12:20, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Jim writes:

>
> But then all the really good schools are in the city. It's not so hard to
> be a top ranked school in the country.
>

Ahh. Lockianism. What meaning do we impart to a word; and having done so,
how then do we then convey our sense to others' sensibilities?

When is a country not a state and a state not a nation? Which meanings
subsume the others and to what degree?  How do we resolve the multitude of
inconsistencies that our imagined world creates in daily experience.  How
is it that the mightiest sovereign state collects taxes levied on its own
citizens by another much weaker? Why does one state enforce the regulatory
strictures of another upon itself?  What is the meaning of all this when
some see the world as such a simple place, where brute force and economic
coercion is all that should matter, and states stand completely alone
against all comers?

Truly, confusion reigneth where ignorance rules.


Sincerely,

--
James B. Byrne                mailto:[log in to unmask]
Harte & Lyne Limited          http://www.harte-lyne.ca
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