Patriotism and the Media

What does the media have to do with patriotism?

The American flag, July 4th, Thanksgiving - propaganda. The media has decided to shove patriotism in our faces, and we like it. We hang the American flag outside our house to show our support, we wear red, white, and blue and watch fireworks on July 4th to show our pride. We give the media reason to make a huge deal out of American holidays.

On Thanksgiving we all buy turkeys and kids in school make pilgrim hats because we find a sense of comfort and pride in it. But what are we celebrating? We stole from harmless Indians and forced them to leave their homeland. We have so much pride in our ability to use violence to overcome obstacles when we could have made much better choices.

The 4th of July is the celebration of another victory by violence. We wear the colors of the flag and march in parades because we killed enough people to get the English off our backs.

The media uses these holidays that we've created for ourselves to pump us up even more with the sense of patriotism that makes us feel so supportive. It doesn't sound so good when you really think about it.