I learned a new word today: jingoism. I definitely should have used it in the post on nationalism below. The mere existence of all these nearly synonymic -isms (chauvinism, nationalism, jingoism; the more positive patriotism; and their political expressions hawkism and militarism) just prove the centrality of the nation-based emotional framework in human experience. History suggests that this is not a very good thing.

I think we should blame it on the cavemen. If they had figured out a way to keep their bloody tribe together, we might not have to worry about any of this. 12:57