Both concepts specifically appeal to those who are unable to achieve anything on their own—they serve to recruit these people against their own interests and therefore have parallels with and often the same effect as religion.
Both concepts specifically appeal to those who are unable to achieve anything on their own—they serve to recruit these people against their own interests and therefore have parallels with and often the same effect as religion.
I think you’re more of a patriot than you realize. A patriot loves their country for what it does and criticizes it when it does things they don’t like, while a nationalist loves their country regardless of what it does and criticizes those who want to change it.
That’s pure projection. I don’t love my country and it would be stupid to have romantic feelings toward a made-up thing that doesn’t exist.
I live here because it’s a good place to live. If the country goes to shit, I move on.
Do you feel patriotic love towards the supermarket you shop at? Or do you go there because it’s currently the place where you get the best deal? Do you love your petrol station? Do you love the highway or train you use to get to work?
Maybe it’s the american weirdness that you guys don’t value love so that you mistake thinking that somethig is ok is automatically deep love or something weird.
Patriotism has exactly on purpose: to keep idiots in line and stop them from thinking.