Muddling through...
People often criticize me for not having any patriotic attitude. Some consider it ignorance, and some laziness, even once I got into trouble for criticizing soldiers. Though I didn't actually criticize any particular figure, rather just bragged about the idea, the idea of dying for the community. At a point, I lived in a society that was so cynical that I can't imagine joining the army to die for this shit cynical society. And besides the justification they give you about saving lives, well, if I think about it from the top, isn't it a bit ironic? Killing or rather dying to save lives, and that too for some egotistical reasons. Patriotism is even okay sometimes but only if it doesn’t come forcefully onto you, but nationalism is worse. Patriotism is nothing but some love for your country, the homeland, but nationalism demands a strong nation, it demands loyalty towards the nation, it demands no criticism and the nation always comes over one’s interes...