{"id":37287,"date":"2019-01-12T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37287"},"modified":"2018-12-22T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T14:42:33","slug":"qotd-cosmopolitanism-and-world-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/01\/12\/qotd-cosmopolitanism-and-world-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Cosmopolitanism and &#8220;world citizens&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; as I\u2019ve noted before, the idea of being a \u201ccitizen of the world\u201d is nonsense. If you get into trouble in a foreign country, it\u2019s the U.S. embassy that\u2019s required to swoop in to bail you out, not \u201cthe world.\u201d Don\u2019t get me wrong; there are many fine people abroad, and many of them may help you. But the U.S. government is the only one that has to, and that makes all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>This should be obvious at a time when that cosmopolitan ideology is failing everywhere. Elites somehow got the idea that national loyalties would fade away and be replaced by a gentle globalism. And indeed, some of the old loyalties did fade away. But it turned out that the alternative to nationalism was not globalism, but particularism &mdash; the fracturing of polities into angry tribes that passionately loathe each other. And many in those tribes now demand to know why they should let cosmopolitan elites run things, when those elites declare, as a matter of pride, that they feel no greater loyalty to their fellow citizens than they do to strangers far away.<\/p>\n<p>Megan McArdle, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2017-01-26\/in-defense-of-trump-s-day-of-patriotic-devotion\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Defense of Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Day of Patriotic Devotion'&#8221;, <em>Bloomberg View<\/em><\/a>, 2017-01-26.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as I\u2019ve noted before, the idea of being a \u201ccitizen of the world\u201d is nonsense. If you get into trouble in a foreign country, it\u2019s the U.S. embassy that\u2019s required to swoop in to bail you out, not \u201cthe world.\u201d Don\u2019t get me wrong; there are many fine people abroad, and many of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,13],"tags":[622,139,202],"class_list":["post-37287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-ideology","tag-psychology","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9Hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37288,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287\/revisions\/37288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}