this, too, of course, but they're amateurs in comparison to communism. One is tempted to say that communism draws its circle with headstones . . . but this would be wrong as the mass graves are almost invariably unmarked.
[3] You may have noted that families have parents and children, the parents being in charge. Have you ever noticed how often people who use phrases like 'Family of Man' tend to think of themselves as the parents? Guess who they think of as children.
[4] And paid for by you. You know the ones: 'feed, clothe and educate poor little Maritza for twenty-seven cents a day?' It doesn't work that way. Little Maritza, if she gets clothed, fed and educated at all, typically gets it from strings-attached government grants. Sadly, for the men and women who claim to be feeding little Maritza, those strings tend to exclude things like paying for mansions in Darien. In most unenlightened fashion, when governments give money to feed Little Maritza they actually insist that little Maritza be fed. Likewise stays at five star resorts for conferences are out. Likewise, flying first class to those conferences is out. That's where
[5] Oh, yes, the mullahs take care of their own. This is one similarity between religious cosmopolitanism and non-religious cosmopolitanism.
[6] So do the Chinese communists. In fact, they're
[7]
[8] After all, there are always people like me willing to spice up a dull world literarily . . . and perhaps in other ways, too.
[9] I'm deliberately leaving out of here the cosmopolitanism which would be justified, or at least theoretically justifiable, if people did actually reincarnate. This, of course, would presuppose that upon reincarnation we cross societal lines rather than, say,
[10] Ibid.
[11] Interestingly, there's a draft declaration at the United Nations, the United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Article 7 of which decries, among other things, 'cultural genocide,' to include, 'Any action which has the aim or effect of depriving them of their integrity as distinct peoples, or of their cultural values or ethnic identities.' I'd like to see that adopted, with a couple of definitions, and some criminal liability attached. Why? Well, if we define indigenous to include native-born, as we certainly might, then we could charge and try all those people who insist on forcibly inflicting upon our children foreign culture and values in place of our own for 'Cultural Genocide.' Be a hoot, wouldn't it?
[12] I am indebted to Professor Sam Huntington's
[13] By the way, I don't mean here to insult Juan Robles, the MS-13 drug runner and assassin, nor his organization, by invidious comparison to, say, Ford or Microsoft. At least Juan has loyalty to something beyond money and genes. And MS-13, at least, can generate loyalty that is not merely bought and paid for.
[14] 'If smarts were people, Lee Harris would be China.' –Jonah Goldberg
[15] Lee Harris,
[16] For an equally good, and perhaps better, example, consider the break-up of India following the end of the British Raj caused that that peerless cosmopolitan, Gandhi.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Though a cynical man, which of course I am not, can hardly help but note the potential for Anthropocentric (man-made) Global Warming to fill this need for an external threat to draw people together. It would be paranoid to say this is the motive. It is not paranoid to note how very
[19] See, e.g., the French. For that matter, see ,e.g. Europe.
[20] There's a lesson in there, I think, about how any form of cosmopolitanism must ultimately deal with those who do not accept its teachings.
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