Had a whole tweetstorm in my mind about how anti-nationalism is a form of self-hatred. But then I spent hours working outside in the sun & now I'm too tired to write. So instead I'll just be grateful for humanity's progress towards material abundance and knowledge work.
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I wanted to defend the word Universalists use to criticize it, as a sort of Russell's Conjugation steelman. "Patriotism" requires no defense, it's a good word applied to the ingroup. "Nationalism" is the evil tendency of outgroups to take pride in their political units.
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Arguing for “nationalism” on the grounds of its ancillary advantages is not patriotic, just as arguing for religion on the grounds of its ancillary advantages is not how sincere religious belief works on the inside.
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I don't see what's so beautiful about "American patriotism". I can see having a great deal of attachment to the values the US was founded on, but that's quite different.
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Well, devotion to those values is the kind of patriotism I admire. America as a creedal republic.
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One of my early writings was a critique of both nationalism and patriotism(In Spanish). But then, Spaniards are the people least likely to say their country is better than other countries (as per a Pre survey) so maybe I'm biased by my environment :-)
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Any interest in a translation?
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