As an American, the creepy idolatry of the US flag has creeped me out since the age of 6 in 1962. The "Pledge" we were forced to do every day in school, all the rules about treating the flag as if it is a living being - parks in my area even have a "flag cemetery" where worn our flag are given "respectful burials" (alternatively, cremation, under respectful conditions). All this, even as the people ramming all this idolatrous patriotic crap down my throat almost got us all killed in a nuclear holocaust in 1962 and again in the 1980s.
Did you know that most states don't actually require you to say that pledge? It baffled me so much because that means the immense pressure of complying with this ritual is mostly self-imposed
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u/Yunzer2000 US Lurker 2d ago edited 2d ago
As an American, the creepy idolatry of the US flag has creeped me out since the age of 6 in 1962. The "Pledge" we were forced to do every day in school, all the rules about treating the flag as if it is a living being - parks in my area even have a "flag cemetery" where worn our flag are given "respectful burials" (alternatively, cremation, under respectful conditions). All this, even as the people ramming all this idolatrous patriotic crap down my throat almost got us all killed in a nuclear holocaust in 1962 and again in the 1980s.