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epitome of incomprehensibility
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I stumbled across "India" on blather and recalled how the study rooms in Concordia University's downtown library are named after countries. And how, writing that, I may have had irreverent thoughts about breaking into Ukraine or inventing an account of how the Israel room keeps stealing chairs from the Palestine room. Not that Concordia has either.
I don't want to be flippant about real-life tragedies but I also don't want to take countries too seriously. I feel like the only way for me to reconcile my interest in nation-state trivia with my anarcho-whatever leanings is to remind myself that no country is really real, at least not in the sense that the land they're on is real.
Maybe I need to construct my own study room where I back up my philosophy with sources. Noam Chomsky, whom I know for syntactic structures, intro'd some book on anarcho-syndicalism that I borrowed from the Surrey_Park book box (aka little_free_library) buuuut it only got buried in a pile on a white chair too narrow to sit in. Put your extra books there instead. Thank you, I did.
But maybe what I need is a political science, not a political philosophy. Something very verifiable. So here: the
only legitimate countries are those acknowledged in Concordia University's study rooms. Yes, you're in Canada when you're inside one of the rooms, but, and I'm sorry to inform Mark Carney of this, Canada isn't real. Concordia could make it real if they wanted to, but they're not being paid enough by Quebec to do that.
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