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Moondawg
I agree the flag is a symbol for unity it is people that try to change that.
posted by
StrickGold
on February 19, 2005 at 2:46 PM
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Goldie
I couldn't hear the music but it is a nice post luv
posted by
WileyJohn
on February 16, 2005 at 6:27 PM
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Moondawg...
...people divide people, for sure, but people invent flags, too, and use them as tools of that dividing.
When the whole world gets under one flag, it'll be hard to justify having a flag at all! And if we have one anyway, it certainly won't be anything like one that exists today, as each one comes with so much of it's own baggage.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on February 16, 2005 at 8:24 AM
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I get chills listening to
the Star Spangle Banner or saying the pledge of alligence. I spent 12 years of my life in service to that flag and am very proud of it. It's not flags that divide people, it's people that divide people. The falg is a symbol of unity, and hopefully someday the whole world will be under one flag. Thank you for a very inspirational moment.
posted by
Moondawg
on February 16, 2005 at 2:57 AM
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This is a Lovely...
...attempt to create some history when really, in a global context, there's actually very little.
As for flags, I see them as symbols of division rather than unity. They are some of the last vestiges of tribalism that we, as a species, are desperately clinging to, against the tide of a new realisation that, in reality, The Tribe = The Species.
The tribe is not, as we currently like to think, some human construct that is arbitarily created, living between notional lines on a map that we like to call nations. This is the myth that flags are helping to prolong, well beyond its useful life.
If you look back at when tribalism was at its most potent (and dangerous) - Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy - many of the images you see from that era are flag-heavy. And I have to say that riding through the mid-West a couple of years ago, seeing flags in every other garden, reminded me of those dark times in Europe.
Thanks for the thought-provoking post. I hope you don't take my response as insulting - it's not meant to be.
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posted by
DamonLeigh
on February 16, 2005 at 2:28 AM
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