279. Ian Morris on Deep Time and Big History
The Michael Shermer Show
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What's the Difference Between a Nation State and a Culture?
The nation state is a weird concepty, you've really got almost nothing you could call a nation state before tog the late eighteenth century. Being french means you descend from a common group ofnces. And often we know that these ancestors are kind of fictitious, thave been made upa but it doesn't matter. It's sort of a genetic argumenth we descend from a shared group of ancestors. We have pulled our very disperate identities into one identity because americans are not appealing to some mythical figures like british were lockbaor king arthur or brute the trojan. The way this get expressed, on this genetic er bas in, get expressed culturally, is shared
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