"The Nation As Person metaphor is pervasive, powerful,
and part of an elaborate metaphor system. It is part of an International
Community metaphor, in which there are friendly nations, hostile
nations, rogue states, and so on. This metaphor comes with a notion of
the national interest: Just as it is in the interest of a person to be
healthy and strong, so it is in the interest of a Nation-Person to be
economically healthy and militarily strong. That is what is meant by the
'national interest'."
Metaphor
and war; the propagandistic construction of Nation-as-Person
metaphors, to be slotted into (rather simplistic, but admittedly I am
still reading this)
archetypal mythic narratives, to help the masses understand which ones
the baddies are. [via Joh]
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Eh, waking up with a lurching awareness that Bush probably declared something
or other during the night isn't good, but it's better than being woken up by
air
raid sirens. Guttingly absurd that Terror and Oppression are being fought with
Shock and Awe,
that the proper show-off bombing is presumably going to kick off tonight,
whether or not a lookalike's stepped in.
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