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January 08, 2006

Namely the Patriots

The national idea, with the flag as totem, is today an aggrandizer of the nursery ego, not the annihilator of an infantile situation. And the numerous saints of this anti-cult - namely the patriots whose ubiquitous photographs, draped with flags, serve as official icons - are precisely the local threshold guardians whom it is the first problem of the hero to surpass.

Joseph Campbell: The Hero with A Thousand Faces (1948)

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