Universalism

Universalism is the pantheist neo-Gnostic creed of the era, where the children of speed and telecommunications find techno-rapture in the illusion that they can be anywhere, anything, at anytime- a kind of simulacra of the singularity. Far from marking them the sophisticates that they imagine being, their disdain for the parochial is the inverse of the nation-state that they imagine they are transcending. Instead of the slavishisness of nationalism, there is a petty narcissism, a Whitmanian "Song of Myself" that imagines that they can love everyone, and by extension, everyone should love them.