Patriotism In The Military

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toward men they have never encountered for the sake of the words of men that they believe they should respect simply on merit. According to World War II american propaganda artists, and allegedly the minister of homeland security “Patriotism is not asking questions,” and for obvious reasons this is true. If too many questions were asked about the origin of any conflict or even the methods by which the battles to come would be fought, a soldiers’ morality would overcome his patriotic mind and restored lucidity to him, and not to the man with the most pins stuck through his lapel, and this is not good for the leeches that are sucking the dignity and convenience out of the role of a politician, so therefore the concept of patriotism was created.Patriotism is essentially a mask for politicians and figures that consume others’ possessions for self …show more content…

Men of self-claimed nobility raise their flag to the point of being a divine icon, an icon of not only sacrifice and endurance, but one of celestial spectacle. The nobels parade their colors as Yggdrasil, the divine ash tree that sustained the life of the Norse gods, while they, playing the part of Nidhogg, gnawing at the roots, becoming a parasite to the resources and status they convinced others into fabricating in order to fulfill their own lecherous style of life. All of this is simply achieved by throwing a small shred of cloth over ones’ eyes to sheild their conscience from what it cannot comprehend, or wish to know, as in order to keep the flock from scattering, a fox must make his first victims go silently, giving the fowels a sense of security believing their oasis has not been

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