September 9, 2025

Poster depicting pro-war propaganda

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What is patriotism? | September 9, 2025

First and foremost: patriotism is primarily an English word of American colloquial and political vocabulary, and in other contexts, other countries and times, the word patriotism may not have or may not be in use, but in this post I use the word patriotism do describe a sentiment that isn't quite the same as nationalism, but that does share many similarities. Before I go onto define patriotism, allow me to define nationalism, a subject that I have covered in part on this page in the past: nationalism is primarily an indiscriminate support for the nation, that is to say the group of people that make up the national collective, and within the context of the nation-state, nationalism often takes on ethnic, racial, and exclusionary forms, in that there often lives out-groups within the national territory that are not part of the nation, often because they themselves do not identify with that nation and/or because they are excluded on racial or ethnic grounds from being a part of the nation, often this is the case with how minorities are treated within the nation-state. Nationalism is often also very jingoistic and aggressively so, which often means that nationalism while on the one hand being exclusionary seeks to expand the national territory, and that invariably means that more groups become part of the nation-state and while some of those groups often become absorbed by the nation, some remain excluded, again usually on racial and ethnic grounds. In short: nationalism seeks to create a nation-state where a majority population, what I like to call the "in-nation", is dominant and where minorities, what I like to call "out-nations", are either pushed out often by discriminatory means and measures or they are granted a separate minority status. In our world of the 21st century this is still the means in which most states are formed, either as full nation-states or as federal ethnic states, but this concept of nation-states is rather new and has its origin in the French revolution: where the bourgeois conspired to overthrow the monarchical and feudal order of France, and in doing so they also created what can be described as the first modern nation-state, but this was also appended and supplemented by the militaristic actions of Napoleon Bonaparte, who sought to create a French nation-state because that would concentrate far more power in his hands, and it would also enable him to mobilize enormous masses of men into armies that could be thrown into battle against far less organized enemies. What used to be the norm on the European continent was indeed multi-nationalism, and borders where often ill-defined and the power of a monarch or a feudal lord was often directly proportional to how distant he was in relation to other feudal lords, or inversely correlated to the power of other often lesser feudal lords, and it was also not uncommon for merchant and other travelling men to speak multiple languages and know several cultures: this was a time before the inception of the national consciousnesses among the plebeian hordes and subsequently men of that era only held loyalty at most to their feudal lord, but often only to their church and to their village. Finally: what then in patriotism? Well, patriotism often stands defined as a love for one's nation or also sometimes a love for one's country, and while that definition isn't wrong I would like to add some more information and context as I go about defining patriotism. To begin with: patriotism is far less ethnically and racially bound, that is to say that patriotism does not carry the same ethnic and racial overtones that nationalism does, and while nationalism can be described as a love or a loyalty to one's nation, patriotism is much more about loving the country and the state, often in more recent context at the expense of the nation, as the world is becoming more and more multicultural in the 21st century. Nationalism and patriotism are both inventions of the bourgeois elite and they both served a purpose: nationalism to concentrate more power into the hands of the elite; and patriotism to perpetuate the basic powers and functions of the state, and often as well to perpetuate war, for patriotism allows for a large pool of manpower as well as a continued expectation that mere ordinary men should not only function as proper soldiers but also that they should want to serve this role, at any rate it provides the basic justification for forcing them to serve in the army through forced military conscription.

    In other words: patriotism is the latest iteration of nationalism, because patriotism can work to better and more efficiently order the state, as democracy and the concept of egalitarianism have become more and more salient in the 20th century, and also because the capitalist production base invariably calls for ever increased levels of immigration and cross border trade, which in turn otherwise would lead to ethnic strives within the nation-state. Democracy and the continual degeneration of sacred and divine values have made it necessary for men to become loyal not to the creator, all of our Jehovah, but to the state and more importantly the revolutionary elite: men of modern times fight to uphold the material order and in order to make each and every man willing to fight for this cause he has to become a soldier ready to defend at first the nation and today the state, and this is the primary purpose of education, compulsory education, and often later on compulsory military training: modern men exists as the beast in his most advanced form, made to follow the orders of the serpent, in the materialist crusade against the natural order. In other words: you may not be a man of ascendant rank and a patriot at the same time; only a man loyal to the creator can be said to be of true rank. Only men of true rank can be said to be warriors, true warriors and such men do not follow the orders of the serpent, and they do not follow the erratic flows of the plebeian horde as well; such men exist outside of time and outside of cultural and material context, for they are shaped by the sacred and the divine. As the world becomes more and more cosmopolitan and interconnected, values that used to exclude will now be used to include, and values that used to include will now be used to exclude: in a lot of ways the emerging post-political paradigm will invert the contemporary iteration of the material order, especially when it comes to the concepts of nationalism and patriotism. This process has already been set in motion and can be seen in how the humanist axiom works to include more and more and yet at the same time works to cleanse the world of everyone and anything that opposes the fundamental claims of liberalism: the humanist axiom is laying out the carpet for the likely emerging technological axiom.

Hida Shūzan (飛田 周山)
Withdrawal of the devils (悪魔)

    So to summarize this post: patriotism and nationalism aren't quite the same, but they have the same origin in that they both exist in the world to ensure the smooth transition away from the source and the light to the material order, and most ordinary men fall victim to this form of propaganda. What has been made to seem natural and obvious was no such thing not that long ago, which just goes to show the power of the grip that the serpent has over the world, but all of this is to be expected in this our era of the Kali Yuga, but do remember if you do consider yourself to be a nationalist or a patriot that the neither the nation and certainly not the state will ever show you any loyalty back; for them you exist as a mere footsoldier, an infantryman, that can and will be disposed in the materialist crusade against the celestial order and the creator's intentions. If you are willing to defend liberal and secular values, you have made your transition into the beast and it may very well be too late for you to be saved from the wrath of the creator's divinely inspired vengeance at the close of this our era of the Kali Yuga. To finally close out this post I want to further and again call on every far-seeing man to embrace both sexual and moral purity – embrace celibacy.

Reginald Drax – September 9, 2025.