By: Gary D. Barnett
“America’s state religion, is ‘patriotism,’ a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.”
~ William Blum
One meaningless jingoistic cliché I am subjected to constantly is “I love my country.” This gibberish for the most part is pure nonsense, and is rarely defined. When most use this term, do they love the people, land, culture, or the government? My take from all my many thousands of encounters of this phrase, is that it means I love my country right or wrong, which is pure nationalism. I say this because that is what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears. This is why many raise blood-soaked flags in honor of aggressive war. This is why most will stand hatless with their hand over their heart during the ‘national’ anthem, this is why most will pledge their dying allegiance to the State, and this is why most all perpetually worship the military and those who falsely claim to ‘serve’ the people.
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They rarely if ever say I love all the people, because they do not. They rarely if ever say I love the landscape, and they rarely if ever say I love the culture. This cliché is used almost entirely under the assumption that one is showing false ‘patriotism’ to the national state, which indicates agreement with what those controlling the nation-state do in their name. This includes taxation, theft, economic destruction, inflation, regulation, mass brutal enforcement, and aggressive warmongering. In other words, as mentioned earlier, they love the State, right or wrong. This attitude is pure reverent worship of the nation and government, which is the exact opposite of honest ‘patriotism.’ Hypocrisy has already taken over at this point.
This is the epitome of what is called ‘Stockholm Syndrome,’ where the ‘citizen’ (victim) forms a psychological attachment (bond) with his captor, controller, and master; in this case, the government. To see this attitude practiced in totality, one only has to watch or attend any large sporting event. As the field-sized flag is rolled out, military jets overhead, and government soldiers on the grounds, everyone is ordered to stand, remove his hat, put his hand over his heart, and bow down to the State en masse. 80,000 will all stand at once, (to not acquiesce and go along with the tamed collective herd can be risky as I have found out many times) complying with the order they have received, while acting as if in prayer to a ‘god.’ The ‘god’ they are praying to is the so-called ‘united’ states.
This is propaganda indoctrination; this what is taught you see, almost from birth to death, from cradle to grave and generationally, beginning in government run, mandatory attendance, ‘public’ schooling environments. This brainwashing is supported by the town and city politicians, the State, the federal government, and the complicit media. This instilled worship of rule is a huge part of the lives of all, and the reason this population is so easy to dumb down and control. As so aptly stated by Jean Baudrillard: “We are dealing with a genuine Stockholm syndrome on a mass scale – when the hostage becomes the accomplice of the hostage taker – as well as a revolution of the concept of voluntary servitude and master-slave relations. When the entire society becomes an accomplice to those who took it hostage, but just as much when individuals split into, for themselves, hostage and hostage taker.” In other words, most all of you are willing slaves, and the ‘country’ you claim to love, is your lord and master, and just as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
This is an appropriate time to bring up this subject, as blood-soaked flags are flying all around me, as those who “rally round the flag’ are showing their solidarity to their State ‘god’ on this ‘holiday’ weekend celebrating Labor Day. This is supposed to be a celebration of laborers, but in this country today, every made-up holiday is treated as — Worship the State and military warmongers day. Never miss a chance to idolize the State, but always remember that the Mafia is more honest than any government, so maybe your ‘patriotic’ idolatry is misplaced.
Now, this heinous empire called America is warring around the world, aggressively maiming and killing, all in your name and with your earnings, wealth, and the blood of your children. It is supporting genocide, and destroying your most necessary vital goods of food, water, and energy. Your savings are being depleted, and the worthless fiat currency is continually debased, as hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt continue to rise, while you await the coming collapse. The big club that you ain’t in does not care about you, does not give a damn about you, but it does want you either controlled or eliminated.
This country is coming apart at the seams, and this is happening intentionally, by design, and is conspiratorial. The agenda, the real big picture, is to form a technocratic governing system; a globalist system put into place in order to claim ownership of everything, and then implement regional universal ruling ‘authority’ zones to lord over all. To accomplish this requires a complete digitization, biometric labeling, non-cash society with digital currency, and concentration-camp environments where control becomes more manageable. The depopulation agenda is an important aspect of this plan as well, as has been telegraphed for decades, and obvious signs of this evil are already evident.
This is not just happening here, but worldwide, and simultaneously among most every country. This is a global phenomenon. This would be impossible unless controlled by a master class of criminal rulers and their pawns and partners in politics, media, and military, as has already happened during the absolute fraud of the fake ‘covid’ pandemic, where most every country on earth did the exact same things at once. You see, all this is a long-planned, structured undertaking that is now coming to fruition.
The result of this takeover plot is up to you, all of you as individuals, not as a collective horde bowing to the State as ‘god.’ Caring intimately for where you were born, your culture, and where you live is natural, but reverence for a governed nation-state reveals a much deeper insanity based on enslavement, not freedom. Americans are captured serfs at this point, dependent on a failed system of reprehensible and immoral rule.
America is now in the darkest moments of its existence, and this has happened because it was allowed to happen by the weakness and indifference of the American people, and without any legitimate resistance. Mass individual opposition is necessary if sanity and freedom are desired. Without an awakening to the fact that this country’s ruling class and government are consumed by evil and deserve no respect, without the understanding that false ‘patriotism’ is not the way forward, but the way to hell, then we all face eventual bondage, or worse, annihilation.
This ‘country’ (or any other) is not to be worshipped or idolized, it is to be lived in, enjoyed, and protected from all those who would claim rule over it. Governments, all governments, are always your captor, controller, and master, and never deserve to be associated with “love of country,” but treated with contempt. Stockholm Syndrome is complete mental instability, and ‘Statism’ is the epitome of the this mental disorder of man, where captivity is more sought than freedom.
“Nationalism is pimped out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm syndrome in the livestock.”
Stefan Molyneux
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