Ah, recalling the days of public school indoctrination makes me cringe more and more every day. People getting robbed of their wealth at gunpoint in order that an armed gang calling itself the height of moral virtue can kidnap children for 7 hours a day and lull their critical thinking skills into the shape of warm play-doh.
"I pledge allegiance to the flag
Of the United States of America,
And to the Republic for which it stands,
One nation, under God, indivisible,
With liberty and justice for all."
~ U.S.S.Amerikan pledge of obedience
Praying to a flag just as bad as praying to God, except more dangerous. Call it praying to the God-erment.
What real meaning can a mind attach to such deranged concepts as flags, nations, and Gods? What cynical social engineer thought to emotionally associate these fictions by lumping them together with necessities like liberty and justice? How vacuous this daily incantation must feel (and felt).
To uphold liberty, we would have to accept that children should not be forced to respect a flag. We would not be able to threaten children with punishment for not obeying teacher.
To uphold justice, children should have the same authority to exercise their preferences and whims on their teachers. If it considered right for one person to exercise arbitrary power and not right for another, then this is simple tyranny. Justice would be the abolition of enforceable whims and adherence only to moral absolutes. Respect for teachers could never again be demanded. As in all voluntary relationships, it would have to be earned. Earned
Why show respect to something you do not actually respect?
"Oh, say! can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming;
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there:
Oh, say! does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?"
~ U.S.S.Amerikan national anthem
The song is about war. It is glorifying America's part in killing other human beings. Our legal system is built around the idea that harming another consciousness in any way (physically, monetarily, by damaging property, etc.) is punishable by law. Yet we obediently revere an anthem (which, by the way, was not our national anthem until 1931) that has everything to do with a practice wholly devoted to causing great suffering to other conscious beings.
Why can't our national anthem be about peace and love and the beautiful shared experience that is being human? Would it be so strange if our national anthem were once again changed to something more enlightened? There are people still alive today that predate our national anthem. They can imagine it I am sure, but Americans today view everything as so static. During the Bush admininistration, they feared that challenging anything patriotic goes against our great War on Terror. I argue the War on Terror goes against every freedom that was ever worth fighting for, to a far greater capacity than terrorists ever could have achieved. During the current Obama administration, the once pansy-pushing liberals are too fucktarded to admit their Messiah is escalating the slaughter of brown people the world over.
Chaaaaaaange...
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