I get patriotism. That’s recognizing and appreciating the abstract principles a state is founded on, and occasionally making courageous choices to defend them. Nationalism though is a weird symbols-and-history emotional apohenia. Personalizing impersonal meta-institutions...
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Or do you do the easy, “nationalist” thing of contrasting the real picture to staged visual and musical theatrical backdrops, finding dissonance, and concluding they are monsters to be slayed? The choice is yours. Patriotism or nationalism? Individual courage or mass psychopathy?
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And if your "hard won history tested principles" connecting to the "present reality" tell you not to allow them in, what then? That describes quite a few people. What then?
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