It is the most destructive, dangerous, bloody and virulent mind disease in history. In the 20th century alone, 200 million people were sacrificed at its altar. And almost everyone on the planet is a member. Join James as he tears up the rules on the cult of statism in this edition of Thought For The Day.
SHOW NOTES:
Rules for Flying the Flag of Canada
A Single Exposure to the American Flag Shifts Support Toward Republicanism up to 8 Months Later
The Great Canadian Flag Debate
Sowing Patriotism, But Reaping Nationalism? Consequences of Exposure to the American Flag
The EU is a special case, but I must say that here most politician puppets agree on your analysis James, here the reaction of Angela Merkel when a German flag is handed to her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3PKjk9gdZ8
I understand your point, mammique, but your reasoning is an example of a variant of the Genetic Fallacy.
1. If Merkel does it, it’s bad.
2. Merkel breathes air.
Thus, breathing air is bad.
The question is not whether or not the oligarchs want to eliminate nation-states and national symbols (they obviously do), it’s whether or not we should be nationalists or venerate national symbols. I do not, because the globalists don’t want to eliminate the fundamental tendencies of nationalism (irrational allegiance to centralized bureaucratic systems of control) they simply want to take those same tendencies and expand them globally. I want to deconstruct the underlying basis for these systems by getting people to realize that free humanity can interact with each other without subsuming our identities to any oligarchical control structure, national or global.
I think that it depends of which step is being implemented in your continental block at the time you resist, being anti-nationalist in a oppressive-nation-state is resisting, but being nationalist in a supra-national block is resisting as well. What I wonder is which way is the more relevant to take control back, making the big jump from the NWO to voluntarism, or smooth landing by deconstructing globalism, going back to nation-state, then independent provinces, etc.?
Being feminist before CIA and the Rockefellers funded the movement was genuine resistance, then it became collaboration. Being anti-nationalist in nowadays China is resistance, but being anti-nationalist along with Merkel in the European Union is collaboration IMHO, it serves more their agenda than ours.
Fantastic video James,one of my new favorites of yours and there are several of your presentations that I deeply appreciate.
Please accept my heartfelt thanks.
GJH
Thanks for the kind words, GJH. I appreciate them.
Thanks for the comment, Al Saleh. You seem to offer a false dichotomy. The choice as I see it is not one between nation states and the people we oppose, it is between free humanity and the people we oppose. I fight for human freedom; I do not and never would fight, kill or die for “the nation,” “the state,” “a flag” or “the leader.” If they get us fighting in the wrong paradigm then it doesn’t matter who wins; free humanity loses.
Oh, OK. I’ll bite:
-Lysander Spooner, No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
From what James and the commenters have said, I get the sense they’ve individually internalized “the Flag”, whichever flag, as a symbol of oppression or liberty or hope.
National flags have certainly been dragged through mud and blood by psychopaths in positions of power. However, I would maintain that no matter how much TPTSB trample on any flag while making a pretense of revering “what it stands for”, they and their governments nonetheless do not acquire the right or power to define it for everyone else, for all time.
Such symbols are powerful in the human mind because they can encode a sense of identity and a set of ideals which each individual has independently assigned over the course of a lifetime.
When I see the American flag, what comes to my mind is a set of ideals which so far have NEVER been realized. I could, I suppose, see it as a symbol all that’s wicked about the government which waves it around and uses it as a war banner. I choose not to, but that’s just me.