Just as innumerable forms or genres of “anti-” mean turning against something you can’t deny or get rid of, there is no such thing as (pure/genuine) anti-patriotism. Otherwise, it would be something similar to the definition that psychologists give it Anti-Oedipus, a formula that defines Oedipus, who struggles against his character as Oedipus, managing more or less, if not completely, to avoid being (=appearing to be) real, that is, as the Oedipus that he is. Or, as Varga Llosa said about “fish in water” and as anyone could say, for example, about a mole (and many others), that being and living in water (or on land) is not a virtue, because not poor an animal that he chose as his birthplace and habitat, but he has nowhere, not being able to live otherwise/elsewhere. Likewise, therefore, every man is a patriot, everyone is a patriot. A man can leave his mother, childhood, and native country, but neither he nor others will be able to expel his wife, homeland, and child. Because all three are rooted in the same unconscious (or less consciously felt) period of childhood, all three intersect and intermingle, similar to the unity proclaimed for the Holy Trinity.

The attachment to the place of birth and the indestructible connection with the first space and the first people (family) and the immediate culture will continue throughout your biological life. The first social interactions and native language are irreversibly imprinted on your sensitive and mental, reactive and emotional universe, forming your own deep, subconscious identity, inevitable despite any further evolution, acculturation, emigration, integration or transformation. In early childhood, all the foundations of personality are established, the country as landscape, atmosphere, climate, microbiology and cuisine where you were born and spent your early childhood years, functions as a bypass and control of your personal self, as a limit and landmark of the permissiveness or openness of your next

You are a patriot, because even if you wanted to, you could not be one.

Patriotism is also about nostalgia or dreaming that you are feeding into completely different meridians, different narratives, chromatics or forms. And when you return or recover what you remember from your childhood, you definitely infuse those ghosts with new energy, and you even find ways to renew manners to share, even if only as an exotic, with the foreigners who mark/define your friend Home.

Unpatriotism or anti-patriotism is just a formula for accusations, gossip and slander, which rudimentary, ignorant, rude and smoked patriots throw at those who think and express/manifest differently, measuredly, not ostentatiously, behind brackets and with various claims. A critic or complainer, even a cynic, is by no means unpatriotic; he is just a lover or a desperate addict, frustrated, demanding and negotiator, owns or at least knows about bars, the standard. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro