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2022年1月14日

Brian Wong EJ Insight

To die for one's country?

It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. This is a lie – rammed down our clogged throats from a young age, inculcated in us through the most pious means of indoctrination. To serve one's country is noble; to die for it, nobler. Such thoughts are conjured by the likes of impetuous imperialists and raging nationalists, only for them to be planted into the minds of unsuspecting, cherubic youth, the pallbearers of their country's fortunes as it heads into Armageddon. The search is always ever-so-elusive. Many have died clamouring for this Shangri-La: this entity that exists at the front of the minds of conquistadors and dictators, generalissimos and tyrants alike. ...

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