Editing Anderson 2006 (section)

==Cultural Roots==

*Emblems of the modern culture of nationalism → tombs of Unknown Soldiers
**Hold ghostly national imaginings, even though no one knows of their origins
*Dawn of the age of nationalism, but dusk of religious modes of thought
**Required a continuity with meaning
**Nations were suited to fill in the void, because they loom out of the past and glide into the future
**Does not suggest a causal relationship, but contextualizes the culture systems preceding it

'''Three cultural conceptions that lost power:'''
#Script-language offered privileged access to ontological truth
#Society was naturally organized around/under high centers (like a monarch)
#Cosmology and historical were indistinguishable, origins of man and the world were identical