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In Notes on Nationalism Orwell writes of the concept of "transferred nationalism", common among intellectuals in his day for whom traditional jingoism had become unfashionable. The psychological effect is to be freed of all guilt, to hate with no abandon.https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/notes-on-nationalism/ …
A person who becomes a patriot for a different group think of his activities as selfless; unlike conventional nationalists he feels he cannot be shamed by accusations of self-interest. In our more sophisticated age the concept is practically universal.
The most common targets of transference are blacks, Israel, and (among the high brow right wingers who read me) the European past. Lump them all together as "the idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own;".
Something I love when reading this kind of essay is stuff that's "dated" but also we can look back on with fresh perspectivespic.twitter.com/QuvB6AaB96
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