All this patriotic jingoism coupled with brainwashing mechanisms seem so outdated to me. I don’t give blind allegiance to anything, anyone or any country. I weigh up what is right myself. Not for me ‘my country right or wrong’.
I find the practice of saluting flags, pledging allegiance, standing for national anthems or singing along a complete anathema.
It amuses me. I find it contrived – a psychological ploy. I don’t fall for it. I don’t support the Queen or desperately want to save her. Neither do I support all the actions of my country. I’m selective about what I give my support to.
Flags, Anthems and Pledges
Flags anthems and pledges
Brainwashing instruments
That restrict freedoms.
Nationalistic fascism
Flakey around the edges
Warlords and fiefdoms.
Tying us to blind allegiance
To forces that exploit our desires
Strangulating our freedoms
With their economic empires.
Consumer units under control
Slotted into the patriotic hole.
Opher 26.12.2017