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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 09:40:33 +0000
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On 21/12/2024 21:45, rbowman wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:54:27 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
> 
>> Absolutely yes. People group themselves in all sorts of ways: shared
>> language, shared religion, shared territory, shared enemy, shared
>> preferred computing platform. Pretty much anything you can think of.
> 
> Shared territory, or civic nationalism, appears to have its limits. The
> aftermath of WWI showed you can't draw lines on a map and say
> 'Congratulations! You're a country!"
> 
Well you can for sure *say* it.

In reality every village has its own character...

People form clusters and alliances based on hopefully mutually shared 
common interests.

Or they get conquered and subjugated. And carry hatred for hundreds of 
years.


-- 
The higher up the mountainside
The greener grows the grass.
The higher up the monkey climbs
The more he shows his arse.

Traditional