Patriotic Ingenuousness - Schins, Juleon
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This booklet contains four chapters, which treat ingenuousness on an individual, professional, institutional, and collective level. The latter is also known as misguided patriotism. All these levels have in common that the people involved do not at all understand why the outsiders consider their views as ingenuous (naive). The key point I make in this book is that the largest danger for a country's future is an abundance of misguided patriots. In order to make "good patriots", as they obviously think of themselves, reconsider their deeply rooted world view, the booklet starts out at showing…mehr

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This booklet contains four chapters, which treat ingenuousness on an individual, professional, institutional, and collective level. The latter is also known as misguided patriotism. All these levels have in common that the people involved do not at all understand why the outsiders consider their views as ingenuous (naive). The key point I make in this book is that the largest danger for a country's future is an abundance of misguided patriots. In order to make "good patriots", as they obviously think of themselves, reconsider their deeply rooted world view, the booklet starts out at showing the insanity of adoring certain patriotic heroes. To begin with my own country, all Dutch heroes we have are pirates with an all but exemplary lifestyle (this holds for Spain and England, too). France has Napoleon. Spain has Philip II. Germany has Hitler. Please mind, I am writing about misguided patriotism. This is usually an extremely tiny percentage of the whole population. Yet, the message of this book is meant for all good patriots (that is, the large majority), not for the few misguided ones. The only people who can read this book are profoundly humble people, who do not get emotional when reading my many non-coinciding, unconventional, and sometimes hurting opinions.
Autorenporträt
Born 1964 in Sorengo (Switzerland) from Dutch parents, the author obtained his high school degree 1982 from the ScuolaEuropea di Varese, Italy. He mastered 1987 in optics in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and graduated 1992 on the field of bi-atomic molecules. He gathered postdoc experience on femtosecond UV-processes 1993-1995 in Paris, on cellular biophysics 1996-1999, on cellular biochemistry 2000-2003. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Irvine (California), Toronto (Canada), and Pamplona (Spain). Since 2004 the author taught physics, chemistry and mathematics at Delft University of Technology, with a research focus on nanotechnology. The present book is part of a "triple trilogy", easily recognizable by the identical front cover design. All books in this "triple trilogy" point toward a single direction, which the reader will soon find out.