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To: Brumar89 who wrote (209131)	6/20/2007 8:23:50 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 794009

I'm sure they see it as a bad thing - especially Chomsky. George Barnard Shaw put their creed well in the third act of "Man and Superman, Don Juan in Hell," In the best production ever done of it, Charles Laughton, playing the Devil, says: Justice. Duty. Patriotism. And all the other "ism's" that persuade the most humanly disposed to become the most destructive of all destroyers.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (209131)	6/20/2007 8:49:39 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794009

Why isn't it on their radar? It's not like one consciously places things below the radar. It's not like "gee, I think I won't pay much attention to displays of patriotism." They just end up there because so many other things perceived to me more immediate end up above the radar. You can only actively care about so many things at a time, after all. I suspect that patriotism is simply assumed and there is just no perceived need to actively display it. Loving one's country is the default. After all, how could one not love one's country? Many on the right find it necessary to display and proclaim it actively and, as a result, interpret a lack of display as a lack of love. It reminds me of the Mars-Venus thing where women want their men to proclaim their love loudly and often and men don't see the need to proclaim what they assume to be obvious. Just a different set of defaults. I think that another factor is that the far left tends to be less provincial, more citizens of the world, and the far right more provincial, more nationalistic. If one thinks we're all playing on the same team, then there is no need to display the local colors. The Zogby survey has started asking if people consider themselves mostly citizens of the world, their country, or their locality. It's an interesting question.