Zeitgeist & The Spirit of The Land

I had some quote I now lost about this. Some Wikipedia entry that got shuffled off into the archives of post-modern infinity. Something about no wait wait I found it, courtesy of USRIS, a proto-AI I am fostering for a time, acting as a steward of its datautonomy:

“Romantic nationalism formed a key strand in the philosophy of Hegel, who argued that there was a “spirit of the age” or zeitgeist that inhabited a particular people at a particular time, and that, when that people became the active determiner of history, it was simply because their cultural and political moment had come.”

Yeah that’s a good one.


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