National Identity!

one dialectical and moral standard for all?

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it, is only the idea. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretense but an idea —something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to ....” Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.

There are implicit arguments, that have shaped Conrad’s “conquest of the earth”. Arguments and verdicts put forward by people who wanted to civilize the uncivilized, based on many institutions, myths and cannons, that included the religious, the racial, even the anthropological, scientific, political, intellectual and obviously a process within history. This is about the “culture” of conquest. Regardless, of what type of culture we are addressing, the world-praxis which includes the West and the “Rest” is made of stereotypes and myths that frame almost every modern society and n…