Friday Philosophy

T0day's selection comes from an essay entitled "Transnational America" written in 1916 by the great American thinker and writer Randolph Bourne (1886-1918). It's a statement that remains as true today as when he wrote it.

"America is a unique sociological fabric, and it bespeaks poverty of imagination not to be thrilled at the incalculable potentialities of so novel a union of men. To seek no other goal than the weary old nationalism, belligerent, exclusive, inbreeding... is to make patriotism a hollow sham, and to declare that, in spite of our boastings, America must ever be a follower and not a leader of nations."