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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Mark Twain was savagely condemnatory of Walter Scott on similar grounds.
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