November 19, 2003
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Earlier, I blogged about how you could get the waving-American-flag screensaver and modify it to be more subversive, substituting adbusters' Corporate America flag for the official one.
And, after watching that corporate flag wave a few times, I decided to go back to the old stars and stripes, and here's why:
It's my country, too.
According to the national narrative, 'the left' (typically defined as 'anyone to the left of Ghengis Khan') is supposed to hold the flag in disdain. Opinion-shapers told a story where 'the left' was supposed to be troubled by the flying of flags after 9/11, where the exuberance of flags in the back of pickup trucks was viewed as a sort of creeping fascism.
But you know what? I trust the flag a whole hell of a lot more than I trust Donald Rumsfeld. I trust blind nationalism more than I trust Dick Cheney. And I trust Kate Smith's sincerity when she sings 'God Bless America' much, much more than I trust George W. Bush.
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but all those stickers post 9-11 seemed like an ominous sign pointing to a fast slide into fascism.
mostly because Those in Charge are fascistlike and would use the grief to further their own mean ends.
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