When Patriotism Becomes a Cult
A must read for those understand the nature of the state. Hopefully also for those willing to reconsider their allegiance. The summary point:
Thomas Fleming of the Rockford Institute, one of the few authentic classical scholars writing about contemporary politics, has pointed out that sound morality (as understood by Aristotle and the Christian tradition) begins with responsibilities to the most intimate association, the family, and then works outward to more distant relationships — neighborhoods, larger communities, and then the country. To invert that order, or ignore one’s primary responsibilities, is to reveal one’s self to be “that `tribeless, lawless, hearthless man’ denounced by Homer,” Fleming observes.