My Next Book (first pages)
Nation has been torn down and dismantled by three forces. These forces are politics, academia, and apathy. Not in that order or any linear fashion do these forces affect one another, but they do coalesce to make collateral damage to nationhood. In these pages I will demonstrate how these forces work together. This demonstration will be conducted from three theoretical positions (Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Jean Baudrillard) in light of the way politics, the university, and the church operate. In an age of tribalism we have come to identify each individually and possessively with communities that vary from organizations, causes, race, gender specificities, philosophies of life and in fact theologies. Types of tribes have been alliterated elsewhere and in many ways. I will be taking up the task of fleshing out and unpacking the origins, longevity, decline, and demise of nation. To make things fair to the reader and to help define ...