“It isn’t necessary to be anti-national to be deeply suspicious of all nationalism, to be anti-nationalism. Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocides of the twentieth century.
Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.When independent, thinking people begin to rally under flags, when writers, painters, musicians, film makers suspend their judgement and blindly yoke their art to the service of the nation, it’s time for all of us to sit up and worry. ” - Arundhati Roy
One of my favorite favorite freethinkers of all time. And I can’t emphasize this enough. Regardless of the context - how true is this?
Would feel terrible if I hadn’t posted an Orwell quote tbh. One of my favorite and more popular Orwell quotes.
Made this quick strip (thanks to Lev Novak for the script!) , I’m pretty awful at this, but anyways.