re: #203 Fozzie Bear

It’s a song and a graphic design. To me, it’s literally nothing. I am fascinated by our history as a species, and less so by our history as a nation. I do think the US has had a special role to play in history, but I think it plays a part far older than our flag. We are part of a tradition thousands of years old, started by the greeks.

That’s how I view things, and as such, that doesn’t make me particularly patriotic. It also doesn’t often make me particularly popular.

No, it won’t make you popular. Flags, anthems, and patriotic stories are things that people need to bind them together to love their nation, keep it free, and fight against evil. That is how I have always under such symbols role in America (and in nations such as Australia and France, too).