Patriotism is Fake.

People say they are proud of their country and that they love their country a lot and their country is the best.

I guess any kind of pride is fake and it shows ones indifference towards people outside the domain. Pride in general is only for things that people think they dont deserve and when they get it by some chance they gloat at other people who dont have that. Its like saying my daddy is the richest, my daddy gave me a bike, what does your daddy have. Now, what is your contribution in making your daddy richest. It is just a coincidence that you were born in that house where there was more money and if you gloat on others for being somewhat unfortunate then you are bad.

People also sing songs about that their country is the best, I will give an example:

Suno Gaur se duniya walo,
buri najar na ham pe dalo,
chahe jitna jor lagalo,
sabse age honge hindustani..

Now what are we teaching kids?

chahe jitna jor laga lo..

- some things can be impossible
- other persons effort may not have meaning,
(thats why we fail to understand why we often lose in games)

sabse age honge hindustani..

- what kind of illusions we want kids to live into? that we win out of virtue of being indian and beautiful and blessed and whatnot and not because of our efforts?
- where exactly do we win all the time? cricket? hockey? football? The answer is that a few times we do but not because we are indian (the beautiful, telented, blessed or whatever) but only because we put efforts and plan.

So in modern society when everyone is so connected to each other a country has no meaning (other than government and its money and that one should not throw garbage on the road). Countries only make walls between people and are reason of so many wars and killings. One reason I could never join Army is that I would have to go to unknown peoples homes and destroy their lives. Also there would be family people on the other side just like me fighting with me that I do not know what lives I may change forever.

Another view is that if everyone thinks so then "we" will become very weak to defend ourself, but I am not only asking "our people" to think that way but everyone in the world cause I dont believe in the concept of "our" people. It makes us a part of bigger group called world..

I wrote a poem about the same long time back..

Soldiers

walking besides the sleeping strangers,
like a group of blind and ignorant creatures,
we are busy in works of cruel carnivores,
wasting time in our useless goals,

far away from our enemy's attack,
the safe hiding places in the old barrack,
we are waiting for turns to die on the ground,
with another jewel in our falling crown,

God, give us the power to feel the delight,
of our innocent enemies, when they see our plight,
help us understand their complex brain,
and make us all good old friends,

we are scared of things we have unseen,
of things we dont know what they mean,
there must be ways to make us sane,
and to keep us moving in the right lane...