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Entry: The Haughty Polloi Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_haughty_polloi#8413 Post contents: Bede, some of what you say about the "rich" is true: like a pizza pan, they tend to be broad but shallow. I'm attached to my real country also (instead of the artificial one Dishonest Abe forced by arms). Folks with roots have deeper and stabler personalities. But are they "broader" personalities? The problem is that if I can get to Rome or St. Petersburg in the same amount of time it takes for me to walk from one end of my county to the other,then the <i>Lokalpatriot</i> has a new issue to face. That I can contact these places in seconds cheaply makes the problem harder. Also any future prosperity will depend on an international market; the free market in general ought to be an international market. If I wish to sell in Singapore, I'd better know what folks there might like to buy, which means knowing their language and culture. Thus we need not only stable and deep personalities, but broad ones as well. So the problem of Real Conservatives is how to be both centripetal and centrifugal at the same time. The Venetians were such. Sent at: 2008 07 23