George and I, For What It's Worth

Concerning the now-infamous 'citizen of the world' remark, on July 24th I called that phrase

meaningless — the world is not a polity, so citizenship in it is impossible [...].

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the only way to close the relationship with a stranger is to make friends. Not to to ‘make citizens’; not to ‘make brothers’. This is crazy European talk — the discredited language of the bloody French and German experiments in various kinds of border-busting solidarity.

Today, George Will concurs that 

"citizen of the world" and "global citizenship" are, strictly speaking, nonsense. Citizenship is defined by legal and loyalty attachments to a particular political entity with a distinctive regime and culture. Neither the world nor the globe is such an entity. 

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Berlin was the wrong place to vow to "remake the world once again." Modern Berlin rose from rubble that was the result of the last attempt at remaking "the world."