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Nope. Nada. None. Zilch. But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whate
by fourthwaveska 5y ago
Nope. Nada. None. Zilch.
But enjoy singing some bad national anthem and crying while waving a flag or maybe killing someone who disrespects your flag, or whatever it is the patriotic kids do today.
We really have no country or stable home right now. Once we get to Spain we will love being there, but we will still hold no sense of patriotism.
I'm not willing to fight, murder, or die for a nation. Some people are wired that way, violent ideation of being a hero, dying for god and country or whatever, but it ain't me.
- zarkov99 5y agoThat level of detachment is only affordable to you because of the generations of people that fought, murdered and died for the nations on which you now can so comfortably live. Perhaps you think that work is done. Maybe you are right, at this moment, but if history is any guide, it could all change in an instant and you could need people who are willing to fight for your way of live.
- fourthwaveska 5y agoI don't owe those people who came before me anything. They did what they did of their own volition, I had zero say in the matter. My mother could easily have been in Russia, Crete or Antarctica when I crawled out of her birth canal. The concept of patriotism and nationalism is purely ridiculous to me. Patriotism is the erroneous belief that you are special because of what side of a line your mother was on when you were born. I think maybe it makes more sense if you believe in god or some other superstition. People live, people die, the world goes on, that's it.