Advocating Patriotism For Earthlings

It is not patriotic to desecrate a flag or even denigrate a nationalistic anthem celebrating a war-torn patriotic flag. Yet is it even anti-patriotic to refuse to bow to it, the flag, that is, to not stand with supremacist intentions while singing about it to each other? And usually rather badly I might snobbishly add. And the lyrics? Well they do not favorably compare to T.S. Elliot, especially the one about how we might sometimes consider taking the history bending road less traveled. Pretentious played out WinLose roads all leading both to and from Rome, monoculturally agreeing we share a just war right to train our children how best to resolve our territorial threats of violence is further threat of militarizing and policing and militia ethno-supremacist violence against basic civil humane decency to at least pretend to flirt for an invitation to visit first. It matters not to me if overpaid and celebrated athletes stand or bow or simply stay comfortably seated on their well-developed asses during nationalistic commemorations that feel to them as if they are sadly sung as Other; this is not a patriotic history that has over-invested in pretending All Hues and Textures Matter and are equally invited to co-reside, not even much of a childhood visit to consider significant investment in singing praise futures for civil war-torn flags flown most flagrantly at sexist and racist and ballistics for better business associations-- which all feels quite anti-democratic and anti-most of North American voting populations and anti-most trees and forests, our nonvoting yet shared-climate populations. But, hey, who's counting patriotically correct positions, right? To stand to bow to remain seated as self-restraint against fake historic news during entire mindless operas and WinLose ball game operations celebrating MightMakesRight means patriotic right or rather more weakly and humbling wrong. I do care what is RightWing undervalued as the very EarthBound Climate HealthyHeart of Patriotism, because what is pathological for planet Earth cannot be so much sacredly patriotic for any American nation, North or South or that hot creolizing latino/a strip in-between, or for any tribe or species or branch of nature, including humane nature-spirits, body-minds of and for nondual patriotic-matriotic polypathic maturation, cooperative regenerativity, health trends patriotically reconnected with ecological wealth trends, to include those nonvoting trees and forests in our ecopolitical party plans and full-color invitations to please participate. If the NFL has earned a patriotic boycott, for me this is about investing in more democratically inclusive cooperative nutritious WinWin health-wealth games and co-ownership exploits but with more commitment than mere flirtations around the edges of Earth flagging worship and waving trends. EarthMatriotic patriotism not all about who stands who sits who bows and scrapes who farts who crosses hearts and hopes to die during any seemingly endless nation's anthems and self-congratulatory flag-waving, as entertaining as this may be for the younger kids who didn't forget their sunscreen. Even they might prefer cooperative circles for Hokey Pokey Anthems full-voiced song and active healthy dance more patriotically AllAmerican together.