Challenging the symbolism that represents our society tends to evoke some unconscious anger in a lot of people. For example, to question the validity of the american flag, or flags in general, will undoubtedly piss off a ton of people.
There is this idea, that you are allowed to hate your government, but you must still love your country. I disagree with this idea because I believe that these two concepts are interwoven and basically the same thing.
We need to challenge the idea of a country in general, not just the specific government that we have today. The concept of a country is basically the idea that people are bound to one another through their geography. As a result of the place they were born, they have a set of rules they need to adhere to based on their neighbor's principles, which they may or may not agree with. This is what flags represent, the idea that you are not a free individual, but a cog in some machine that allows you very little free choice in your day to day life.
You can love your neighbors, love the geography that you live around, without claiming allegiance to a "country" or its symbolism.
A country is not a place, it is a forced arrangement that people are born into. Which is personally, why I hate my government, hate my country, and have no respect for flags of any kind. When I say this, I mean no disprespect towards my neighbors, their beliefs, or the place that I live, but I mean all the disrespect in the world for the violent gang that lords over me and my neighbors, force conformity in our beliefs, and controll the territory that I live on.
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