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i have changed my mind about the virtues and importance of patriotism over the course of the last decades. The very worst people were able to use the powerful symbolism of a nation when the best and most aspirational kinds of people retreated from that ground. I changed my mind because i'm seeing how powerful a moderatof patriotism can be for people in ecrane to volunteer to defend their country against an unjust invasion from vladimir puten. And i changed my mind when i read george orwell, one of my heroes, sit down in the midst of wordward, to to the seemingly unlikely task of writing a defence of patriotism. If british intellectuals had succeeded in their goal

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