re: #66 Barefoot Grin

The Japanese teachers with whom I was passingly familiar would probably be described as “left wing” in that they had a more progressive view of society and accepted Japanese history.

Nationalism is inherent in humans; it’s the tribal manifest on a larger scale. It’s our default state. The big challenge is diplomacy and tearing down the walls, which visionaries have been trying to do for centuries (maybe millennia.)