It seems that American freemasonry and Patriotism are deeply connected. You see Freemasons marching in 4th of July parades and so forth. Reading the history on Freemasonry and it's formation often under penalty of law I wonder why this is the case.
It seems that Freemasonry has a past of political insurgency.
When did this cease to be the case?
"Any cook should be able to run the country. "- Lenin
It seems that American freemasonry and Patriotism are deeply connected. You see Freemasons marching in 4th of July parades and so forth. Reading the history on Freemasonry and it's formation often under penalty of law I wonder why this is the case.
It seems that Freemasonry has a past of political insurgency.
When did this cease to be the case?
Who sez that it's ceased?
And how do you define "Patiotism"? Do you mean some dude drinking beer, farting, with a TV remote in his hand, saying "my country right or wrong"? Or do you refer to "pater" ... for instance, if one travels to the American midwest, there are many towns and farms surrounded by huge oak trees that are a few hundreds of years old. Obviously, the planters of those trees probably never enjoyed the massive amount of shade that they now provide their descendants hundreds of years later, thus giving rise to the notion that perhaps they wished to create something good and lasting for others to enjoy. Does "Patriotism" refer to bombing third world hellholes so that the banking elite can war profiteer, and create propaganda to trick these beer-belchers into going along with it? Or does it perhaps refer to something else?
Well, all I know is that blowing stuff up on the fourth of July is cool, and who cares if our hard-won freedoms have been squandered away, or if I have to drive through check points where there are stupid thugs waiting. I have cool stuff, so who cares about these poor countries? As Marie Antoinette said, "let them eat napalm".
Patriotism: (n) love for or devotion to one's country.
Just for fun, let's try out something a little more broad than the narrow definition you gave, and maybe get at the actual root idea behind the word:
patriot (n.) 1590s, "compatriot," from M.Fr. patriote (15c.), from L.L. patriota "fellow-countryman" (6c.), from Gk. patriotes "fellow countryman," from patrios "of one's fathers," patris "fatherland," from pater (gen. patros) "father," with -otes, suffix expressing state or condition. Meaning "loyal and disinterested supporter of one's country" is attested from c.1600, but became an ironic term of ridicule or abuse from mid-18c. in England, so that Johnson, who at first defined it as "one whose ruling passion is the love of his country," in his fourth edition added, "It is sometimes used for a factious disturber of the government." The name of patriot had become [c.1744] a by-word of derision. Horace Walpole scarcely exaggerated when he said that ... the most popular declaration which a candidate could make on the hustings was that he had never been and never would be a patriot. [Macaulay, "Horace Walpole," 1833]
Somewhat revived in reference to resistance movements in overrun countries in WWII, it has usually had a positive sense in Amer.Eng., where the phony and rascally variety has been consigned to the word patrioteer (1928). Oriana Fallaci ["The Rage and the Pride," 2002] marvels that Americans, so fond of patriotic, patriot, and patriotism, lack the root noun and are content to express the idea of patria by cumbersome compounds such as homeland.
I'm sticking to my story about the oak trees planted by the paters -- some of whom were masons. Most were too tired to march in parades, fart, or belch beer burps.
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