Patriotism is such a strange concept to me in how it inspires the same dogmatic reverence in people who define it in very different ways.
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Same. Still it boggles my mind how they love a flag more than their families.
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Same. I honestly don't understand how it's such an important thing elsewhere. It's a weird concept to me.
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Guess that's because of your perspective. Help looking from afar, from time to time. ;)
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It is certainly a bit maddening from many society perspectives, symbol worship to the point that they forget what symbol represented.
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Most of this Patriotism started post 9/11. To have a massive terrorist attack on US soil was unthinkable before that. Sadly it was...
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Exploited by politics and media outlets to channel anger into hated and xenophobia. It's sad that it has become is vs. them for everything
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It's a bit like religion. Many grades from crazy-ass to admirable.
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I have to wonder if part of it maybe had something to do w/the intense religious zealotry that was conflated w/our founding....
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Almost certainly. The most "patriotic" Americans I know nearly always hold absurd religious views as well.
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