The Greatest Country in the World
Today I made a fascinating discovery, that being that I am presently living in the greatest country in the world. I know this because it falls into one of the three catagories which I’ve determined deduce which country is indeed the greatest. These are:
- The country you’re from.
- The country you’re living in.
- The United States of America.
It appears to me that everyone on earth holds one or all of these three countries as being the greatest country on earth. It strikes me as being a bit unusual when you think how arbitrary a country can be. There are many ‘objective’ indexes that countries themselves use to determine which among them is the greatest: GDP per capita, military strength, population, proximity to Chuck Norris but formost among them which I remember hearing about is the Human Development Index (HDI). To me this is just another one of these methods of objectively determining which country is the greatest only, as I recall, the results are often more interesting because the number one country isn’t always the US.
Ko Sun wrote:
You’ll have to thank the 19th Century nutbag mobs who popularised Nationalism and the concept of the nation-state as the dominant basis for a country.
Posted 28 Jul 2007 at 10:24 am ¶