My older brother is the reason that I got into "nerd culture" since I read his sci-fi books as a kid as well as his comic books before I started collecting my own. Also, before he got too old for it we watched G.I. Joe religiously (imagine that cartoon on today). He a wife and three kids now so he is out of the loop for a lot of geek stuff, so when I told him that Amazon was going to have a Lord of the Ring show we both got a good laugh because the first thing he said was "so how long before the articles bashing Tolkien or whining about lack of diversity start"
It is so funny because with all the reboots/sequels I swear it is like clockwork to see articles from supposed life long fans of something that now "realize" all the racism/sexism in the original show/movie. I remember the gushing critic articles for Ghostbusters 2016 and it has only become worse since. I'm currently on the last book of Wheel of Time series and I've already seen articles calling it sexist and complaining about abuse to women. That whole Geeker Gate thing was spot on.
It's a rootless internationalist problem. Commies are everywhere. The foreign and domestic threats need to be handled simultaneously.
Rootless cosmopolitans, as Vissarion Belinski called them.
I've been reading Friedrich List, and "cosmopolitan" is the word he favors too. He derides Adam Smith, JB Say, Columbia University, and others of that era with it.
Spez: I looked up the etymology for cosmopolitan. It's Greek. Cosmo is world and polite is citizen. "Citizen of the world" is a degenerate english vulgarization.
Not to be too pedantic, but I am pretty sure that 'kosmos' means order. But it became to be used for 'world', because of the idea that the world is a beautifully ordered whole (cf. cosmetic).
Cosmopolitan definitely means 'world-citizen' though. Although of course, someone who is a citizen of the world, is a citizen of no place. Hence 'rootless'. Rootlesseness defines these human auto-immune citizens who do nothing but try to tear down the country that gave them the wealth and leisure to tear it down.
I live for pendantry.