Patriotism (was Re: Pynchon's anti-Americanism)

[Dave Monroe]

"Why of course the people don't want war. But it is
the leaders who determine policy, and it is always a
simple matter to drag the people along. All you have
to do is tell them they are being attacked, and
denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and
exposing the country to danger. It works the same in
any country." --Hermann Goerring

And on Johnson, Bierce and Mencken see as well ...

http://www.bartleby.com/73/1306.html

--- Lord Gro <lord_gro at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ambrose Bierce in the Devil's Dictionary: 
>  
> PATRIOTISM : Combustible rubbish ready to the torch
> of anyone ambitous to illuminate his name.
> In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is
> defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all
> due respect to an enlightened but inferior
> lexicographer I beg to submit that is is the first.

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