Patriotism And Its Pathologies

This is a very good article about Patriotism. While I may not necessarily agree with everything the author says, he does have some valid points.


Patriotism And Its Pathologies
Once upon a time, patriotism was a fairly simple thing. It was tribal identification writ large, an emotional attachment to a people and their land. In most of the world, where patriotism exists at all it’s still like this — tribal patriotism, blood-and-soil emotionalism.