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Dumb question. My reply:
ReplyDeletefrom unkie_sirhc on Jul, 05, 2011, 12:10 PDT
Might have responded differently if 'patriotism' wasn't in the title. I mean, c'mon, thats just simplistically jingoistic and system-centric. Its SL, its too important for a small world blinker set
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
unkie s
I look up on this survey as an disguised marketing research, very likely by Linden Lab themselves. Therefore, I will not participate.
ReplyDeleteSincerely
"all yours favorite pain in the ass" :)
Of course you guys are free not to take part in the voting for whatever reason you may have, but in my honest opinion I don´t think we should overanalyze the wording. The survey was after all published on the 4th of July by an American.
ReplyDeleteAs a Swede I also reacted to the word "patriot" but as it is about SecondLife-patriotism - and after reading the statements - I wanted to put my two cents in.
I never believe my friends to be "pains in my ass" (Whats so bad about that anyway, I wonder?) just because they have a will of their own. In fact having a will and opinion of their own is a major factor in why I choose them as friends in the first place!
I have to admit that usage of the term "patriot" is problematic. I checked the Urban Dictionary and it said this:
ReplyDeleteOriginally, a patriot was someone who loves their country and supports it, but won't blindly follow whatever their country's government does. These days, it is synonymous with Nationalist, which is someone who blindly follows whatever his country's government does, and lacks his own ability to think and reason for himself.
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However, in this context, I think the intention was to mean this Urban Dictionary definition:
A real patriot is someone who loves their country enough to speak up when they see something that needs to be changed; not someone who blindly assumes that their government knows best and is always right no matter what.
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Let's give Hamlet Au, the editor of New World notes the benefit of the doubt and assume he means the second definition!
I couldn't agree more, Eddi!
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