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/ …
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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;".
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See why you need to learn psychonalysis
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