Nationalism, Old and New

and homogenized (though fragmented) culture of continuousnconsumption, distraction, entertainment, self-indulgence, surrendernof social responsibilities to mass organizations, andnthe erosion of the concrete social identities and intermediaryninstitutions that restrain the centralized manipulative power ofnboth political and corporate structures.nBy far the most strategically important effort of an emergingnMiddle-American counterelite would . . .