Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult…. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And when they become discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontentment led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances.
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four
Posts from This Journal by “patriotism” Tag
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QotD: Korea got the short end of the stick 1945
Following the Axis surrender, Korea's fate, like that of Central Europe, was still to be worked out. Officially, the victorious Allies were committed…
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QotD: I Pledge Alliegance
My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one…
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What is Fascism
From a poster seen in the holocaust museum: Early Warning Signs of Fascism Powerful and Continuing Nationalism Disdain For Human Rights…
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QotD: Homer Loves America
You must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning. —Homer Simpson
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QotD: Tea Party vs Occupy Wall Street in the Media
So, rage against duly elected government is patriotic -- quintessentially American -- whereas rage against multi-national shareholder-accountable…
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QotD: Dissent and a Dream in which Obama does the Splits
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. --Howard Zinn Just saw Social Network and if you are reading this you probably should see it. Obama…
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Joe Stack Crashes His Plane into IRS office building
Here's his manifesto. Sounds pretty familiar. He was a good writer. He wants to wake up Americans. Maybe if enough people read this, they will…
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Decline of a Nation
Where once there had lived a sober and thrifty citizenry, proud of their founding fathers, jealous of their Republic, finding their full expression…
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Quote: the Greatest Nation on Earth
The hoariest and most of-repeated cliche in American politics may be that America is the greatest country in the world. Every politician,…
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