Roger Scruton on the origins of anti-nationalism:
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Clarissa's Blog 
In 1885 these people were common enough to be considered a public nuisance:
“…They never would be missed — they never would be missed!
Then the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All centuries but this, and every country but his own;“
No doubt it took a while for them to capture enough educational instutions, publishing houses, and so on.
A knock-on effect of mass-slaughtering the men capable of resisting this kind of thing in two World Wars?
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I love the Mikado, especially the Lord High Executioners list, unabridged.
Walnut
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OT: Greetings from bustling, loud and chaotic Budapest, one of my favorite cities in the world!
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It’s my dream to visit it one day! Enjoy and have a big goulash for me.
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There is an excellent book by Swedish-American independent scholar Benedict Beckeld, Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations, which traces the development of this concept, from the ancient Greeks to today’s Wokerati. Great read!
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I need to read this one because I sincerely have no answer for why this exists.
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Article by the author in Quillette:
https://quillette.com/2019/10/07/oikophobia-our-western-self-hatred/
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