Patriotism - a refuge of scoundrels

Even leaving aside the record of ... etc....
Even if we forget, that the patriotism of Komsomol, the bottom line meant just loyalty to the government.
The very idea of ​​teaching patriotism, even though she came from more than clean hands, gives me a profound question. If only because the very notion of patriotism in our country have long been going wrong.

Recently, for example, participated in the youth program.
When we are talking about patriotism, the participants, young musicians were in the sense that as a patriotic song they sing in Russian. The statement struck me as symptomatic of.

What else, besides singing in Russian, we were called patriotic in the last ten or fifteen years?.

Dima Bilan's victory at the Eurovision Song Contest?.
This, of course, all the cool bypassed Russia. Who do not appreciate - not a patriot! .

It is patriotic to potoskovat former superpower as the world we once feared.
Again, mourn, and the empire: that Russia had fallen off from Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Moscow is no longer any taxis in Ukraine or Belarus, or in other former Soviet....

And so the mantra ...
There is also another - ... And then in unison about the special way of Russia....

Needless to cool, and very patriotic collected on Vasilevsky descent, or somewhere else and yell at megadinamiki about his love for the fatherland.

Well, in some circles is considered a very patriotic beat in every way the idea of ​​...
The idea, I must say, has turned out fruitful, and attracting new supporters. Especially her patriotic fans embody the idea to life literally - with the help, fittings, knives and sharpeners.

That is our new patriotism, usurped the Communists first, then the statesmen and the loyalists, and, of course, taken up by nationalists.
Including their radical wing - skinheads and other similar.

In recent years, from the frequent and inappropriate use of ...

It was the same conventional wisdom, as empty and colorless, like the matrix in the mouths of those who have everything that makes that not said - all in the mother.

Well, the concept of ...

Even before then, it was decent, people believed that love of country - an intimate experience, as a spiritual faith, like love for a woman or a man.

And, perhaps, why spend too much time avoiding those feelings in everyday life. As well as avoiding crack about them, and thus trivialize them publicly. And only the great artists in their eyes, had the right to sing these feelings prinarodno. That's because the artists, so that large.

But it was a decent people is one exception here is a non-public.
When patriotism is poured into bitterness and pain for what happened at home when the conscience is not possible to remain silent, that's when decent people raised their voices, which sometimes thunder across the country. Is not the patriots were Gogol, Saltykov - Shchedrin, Ostrovsky? .

But these people are not beating his chest, go to the love of country.
They sounded the alarm, opened the reasons for poverty, denounced the perpetrators, looking out, how to make the country healed in a human. The best of us had the courage to speak the truth and hard when their words or actions could lead to the camps, and even to death. And this was their patriotism.

However, I'm not talking about them.
And it is not their antipodes are doing on the patriotism of his career, earning a political or other capital. With these simple patriotism - Careers - Money. Can be in a different way: the money - patriotism - the power.

It is also clear, and the ideological communists and especially with the hardcore Stalinists.
Here we are dealing with almost a religion, when facts are not important, but only the dogmas of faith. More or less clear, and with those who, to compensate for its inability to ordinary life of ordinary people, united in the pack and create polubanditskie, paramilitary groups fighting under the banner of the Slavic idea.

I am also interested in ordinary people.
How is it that many of our fellow citizens a high sense of love of country has degenerated into a vulgarized surrogate patriotism: surely sing in Russian, vilify other countries and on every street corner screaming ...

Rather, in many ways this was the cause of the collapse of the myths in which the country lived up to the early 90.
No matter how stupid, no matter how primitive was the Soviet state propaganda, but his work is done. Many in fact, indeed, believed that the Soviet Union - one of the most developed countries, that all of us ... ....
Yes there machines! . And the fact that living is bad, it's because the country in a hostile environment that bureaucrats are bastards, this is not a correct idea of ​​socialism embodied the true. Well, in general, people are deeply seated sense of pride in their country. And it was the pride of belonging to a large, strong, great.

But when the system changed when collapsed the whole organized system of government lies, when the Iron Curtain fell, and our people began to travel around the world, then suddenly it turned out that the King is not just a bare, naked and ugly.
With our machines - useless piles of metal and transferred to anyone in the world does not need. What is our medicine, although it is free, but a fantastic... and so backward in almost all. Is that rocket, and in fact, could destroy half the world.