What's in mean to be a modern Patriot?

[Yorkshire pud]

Will Selfs view...Quite interesting if you carve through it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28468039

Johnson himself was a great patriot, and one of the most affecting incidents in his life came towards its end, when George III invited the great lexicographer into his own library so he could practise regal reading habits.

For Johnson, royalism and patriotism were completely entwined - and I think he was right about this. Which is not to say that a republican state cannot have its patriots, only that they, like the subjects of a monarchy, need some thing or one in which to invest their loyalty - the entire nation is too amorphous for this. We can see this if we analyse what "loving one's country" might involve. Does one need to feel passionate about every blade of grass and each sticky crumb of asphalt? Need we love all our fellow countrywomen and men - or only some? And what about its institutions, its customs and its folkways? Again, is pick-and-mix allowed, or does the true patriot embrace everything unswervingly?

[b_dubb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE8BgQzyktE

[TheMan WhoFell ToEarth]

The modern perception of patriotism seems to be nationalism.

True patriots don't stand for literal soil, imaginary borders, political or religious figureheads, nor a flag.  A patriot stands for ideas and concepts, here those concepts are supposed to be ones of liberty, equality, and autonomy.  Good luck finding any of that today, and better luck finding someone not openly ignorant of and/or outright hostile towards those precepts.

[Kelt]

The greatest living American would be the one to ask.

http://youtu.be/QsPDT5qHtZ4

[Quick Karl]

The modern perception of patriotism seems to be nationalism.

True patriots don't stand for literal soil, imaginary borders, political or religious figureheads, nor a flag.  A patriot stands for ideas and concepts, here those concepts are supposed to be ones of liberty, equality, and autonomy.  Good luck finding any of that today, and better luck finding someone not openly ignorant of and/or outright hostile towards those precepts.

Pretty God-damned good post!

[pate]

The modern perception of patriotism seems to be nationalism cannabilism.

Quite interesting if you carve through it.

I think I 'fixed it'...

[pate]

Pretty God-damned good post!

mMM, TESTEAs........

[Dr. MD MD]

3 years later and this thread is almost on page 2. 

[pate]

When you consider the thread=satire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MNqkc7E3w0

and the newly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

mmm.