CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: The Maple Leaf Forever, Canadian Nationalism, Protestantism
2 Jun 2015
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Unit one review the canadian environment and canadian nationalism. Canada, wanting to cement what canada had ownership of: our ownership is unquestioned. We mapped it, we own it: challenges, pollution. Violent conflicts undertaken for political, religious, nationalist, and/or economic cause: state sanction. The variety of enemies: a necessary evil. Reality: how and why war is mythologized: discourse = war as it is imagined, reality = war as it actually is, understanding the context of war is what makes us able to understand war better. Aboriginals are dismissed as being evil for their different strategies. Explaining the preoccupation: because it exposes meaning and despite exposing meaninglessness exposing a capacity for evil, imposing silence about realities because it lacks triviality, and promotes unity and resolve. The enemy lacks compassion and humanity: we are the good guys, they are the bad guys, we mourn our dead, but not theirs. The killing we do is noble and necessary whereas there"s is in bad blood.
