Nationalism
If you have reverence for a flag ( cotton God ), then chances are you won't like the words coming your way. Like them or not, they are true and hating me for stating the facts will change nothing. I like you never chose where we were born. Some of us got lucky in the geographic lottery and some not so. Same thing as the parents lotto. We never chose to whom and where we were born. Fact of the matter is is that when you look at a photo of the earth from space there are no boarders. No boarders and no countries. Look at a map from 500 years ago and the imaginary lines that people made are different from the ones you see today. At an early age I was brainwashed to believe that Canada is the greatest country in the world and yes I did believe it for the longest time. My father was Greek and guess what country he was told was the best in the world? I have friends from England and guess what country they were brainwashed to believe is number 1? You get the picture. When we start school that's when the government propaganda swings into full gear. For many years I was told that Canadians are better than Americans. Yes, we are good and they are bad. Out of ignorance a very high number of Canucks believe this now. A staggering high number to say the least. Even if their favourite movies and music etc are from the States, they are brainwashed to think Canada is King. Nationalism is a false belief just like religion. You are a product of nationalism if you hate people that you have never met. I don't hate religious people, but I do loathe their beliefs. Beliefs in talking snakes and reverence towards pedophile prophets is crazy.
I know a few Japanese people that dislike the Chinese. I'm sure that there are many Chinese that repay the favor. Once again they are hating people they never met. We have to give people a chance and not be quick to judge. Paper was invented in China and we all use paper for whatever reason. Japanese people enjoy fireworks? Yes, and guess where those originally came from? You use Chinese kanji when you read and write and every single Japanese person's name is written in Chinese characters as well? Gosh talk about being a hypocrite! Hate is a learned behavior and a lot of it is learned in public schools. The we are good and they are bad lessons again.
I've never voted and I never will. The government uses force and I won't sanction violence by voting. If you don't pay your property tax, people with guns will come to the house and remove you by any means necessary. Taxation is a shakedown by those in charge just like the mafia when they ask for protection money. If you keep paying them then they will let you be, but if you don't once again people with guns will visit. Using force in order to achieve resources is immoral. Imagine being the victim of 2 school yard bullies. They steal your cap and start throwing it over your head back and forth. Some if not most kids will be running around humiliating themselves trying to get the cap back. Don't take any part of that game. Tell those kids they can keep the cap because your pride is worth much more. Same thing happens in politics. There are mainly 2 political parties that share the presidency or main position in politics. They keep making empty promises and voters will fly back and forth just like a ball does in a ping-pong game. When voting time comes I will stay home that day or find something better to do. They can keep my money. I won't vote and condone the use of violence. Countless millions of dollars are spent in order to get a job that pays a few hundred thousand? Something very not right about that.
I don't understand why some burn flags and why others will take offense to the useless act. Same with burning a book. You have to be really dumb to get angry if a flag or book is burned. If there are many copies of the item then what's the point? I once was playing a game at the bar where a bottle is placed upside down on a paper bill. This time it happened to be a 1000 yen note under the bottle. As always a little left over beer gets on the money and so what? This 1 freaking Japanese guy starts to get a little uneasy. He says that that money belongs to Japan. I'm like no, this is my money. He disagrees and the other 4 Japanese people around the table don't say anything. A few more words were exchanged and in the end the 1000 yen that I worked for he believed still belongs to Japan. I call him a bunch of pejorative names in English and Japanese. My drink was finished anyway and so I leave the bar. If Canadian money is pissed on or burned or whatever, I wouldn't care unless it was my money. The 1000 yen bill was probably made from trees that came from Canada. Nationalism and Religions are magic at work. The spells don't work on me because I am immune to them.
All countries are are different names for different farms. Yes, we dear reader are tax live stalk. Sad, but true and not much we can do. Unless you want to move up in the mountains and live off the land. Like the farmer that takes eggs from chickens, the government takes taxes from us. Some say that another word for slave is employee, At least the slaves in history KNEW they were slaves. The first step towards emancipation is knowing that you are being screwed over. The government lies to us by saying oh how great the country is and then they steal our money. Deducted from our salary and there's nothing we can do about it. Ahhh the sheeple and their national pride. North Korea isn't that far from here. Do you think they have national pride? Oh yes, the magic spells work on them too. I know a lot of you don't want to hear this. When I say I'm not proud to be a Canadian ( you should only be proud of things that YOU accomplish ), it's not the government that's going to attack me, its the regular people. It's the brainwashed people that will point their fingers and try to shut me up. Imagine living in a tribe where everyone is fat and you start to lose weight. The overweight people start noticing that they are big and you become a target. When I criticize religion, its not the pope who's going to attack me. It will be the deluded sheeple who don't want to hear the truth.
The Olympics. There's another money grab. Also people think that when a person that belongs to their farm wins a medal that they also win. The truth is that they the non contestant wins nothing! If Canada were to win every gold medal nothing would change in my life. The only way that I or you could win would be to place bets. If the Canadian teams were to come in last injevery event I could care less as well. Once again many people will disagree with me, but the fact is after the Olympics are finished their life will be the same and they go back to their own jobs. I will watch the Olympics for entertainment purposes and without bigotry. National anthems will be an impediment, but what can you do? All the athletes deserve the respect and THEY have the right to be proud. The sacrifices that they made I could only imagine. Very few benefit from the games compared to the majority and the tax payers are stuck with the bill. There's always a massive construction project and it doesn't come cheap.