An essay on Bernard Shaw's quotation “A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation’s nationality, it will think of nothing else but getting it set again”.
Wittgenstein writes in his preface to Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus: “… in order to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both side of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought)” (1997, p.3). Likewise, nationalism, as series of very disciplined thoughts and ideologies, share a similar inner-dilemma, which has been perplexing the societies since the French Revolution. The conflict rises due to the radical overhaul of various political ideas and regimes, and individuals’ naïve and insufficient criticism of chauvinism. For this straightforward reason, it is vital to discuss the means of nationalism preparatory to further debates over how it might alter the social behavior of individuals, and protect its attacked virginity. In the rest of this essay, nationalism will be analyzed from a historical and ideological perspective in order to wholly apprehend Shaw’s point that nationality is the unconsciously sleeping hence harmless Monster – or the beauty until it is awaken –, and it would take an overwhelming amount of time, effort, and courage to set it back to a benign sleep once awaken.
Wittgenstein writes in his preface to Tractatus Logico-Philisophicus: “… in order to draw a limit to thought, we should have to find both side of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought)” (1997, p.3). Likewise, nationalism, as series of very disciplined thoughts and ideologies, share a similar inner-dilemma, which has been perplexing the societies since the French Revolution. The conflict rises due to the radical overhaul of various political ideas and regimes, and individuals’ naïve and insufficient criticism of chauvinism. For this straightforward reason, it is vital to discuss the means of nationalism preparatory to further debates over how it might alter the social behavior of individuals, and protect its attacked virginity. In the rest of this essay, nationalism will be analyzed from a historical and ideological perspective in order to wholly apprehend Shaw’s point that nationality is the unconsciously sleeping hence harmless Monster – or the beauty until it is awaken –, and it would take an overwhelming amount of time, effort, and courage to set it back to a benign sleep once awaken.