Patriotism

[joanna bujes]

At 04:17 PM 06/01/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and
>one's "country"; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the
>desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when
>contemplating heaps of charred "enemy" corpses; 4) The first, last, and
>perennial refuge of scoundrels.
>- -- from The American Heretic's Dictionary edited by Chaz Bufe

PATRIOTISM (n)  one of many forms of identification used to conceal the 
emptiness within and to deny one's bond and likeness to every other human 
being living on this planet. (Joanna)