Should people be jabbering like that all the time in a free
country?
If we are free, doesn’t that mean it’s perfectly normal and
expected that we are not living to
suit or advantage someone else, that we do not
submit to somebody else’s – or, perhaps, any – cause, and that our purposes are
optional, self-chosen, and quite our own?
In a free country, isn’t the “national goal” only to keep us
safe in our freedom?
National goals and grand causes enslave each of us to
whoever bellows loudest and most urgently, demanding we submit, follow him, and
sacrifice whatever is needed for the sake of his national goals.
Goals involving imposition of rules to live by, ordinarily.
His rules, those of his god, or those of his ideology.
Lately, when people yell about national causes and
sacrifice, they do not merely want to impose on us, though.
They want to use us, our lives, our power, and our wealth to
impose on others, half-way around the world.
Phooey.
That, in a free
country?
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