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u/midwest_platitudes · 2 pointsr/NewPatriotism

Members of the Peace Corps who risked their lives to follow the ideal of making the world a better place.

I read an interesting book about some of the first members recently, and made me realize the sacrifices those people made. The book was called "Into the Backlands".

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999043013

u/Lord_Jud · 2 pointsr/NewPatriotism

It's a little more complicated than that, although certainly not rosey. Check out Culture as Weapon, specifically the chapter on corporate charity and giving.

u/recycleaccount38 · 20 pointsr/NewPatriotism

Something that certainly shows the rhymes between today and 20th century history worth checking out might be "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45" by Milton Mayer

https://www.amazon.com/They-Thought-Were-Free-Germans/dp/0226511928

This is a long excerpt (and I'm sure some of you already know it) but I think it's really, really important to read this and think about it:

>"And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

>"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to—to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait.

>"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

>"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.

>"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succession of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably every day, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany, could not have imagined.

>"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven’t done (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the university when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair.

u/W4RD06 · 1 pointr/NewPatriotism

The image listed on the ad here is identical to the cover of the comic I'm talking about...but I'm no expert in comics so I couldn't tell you for certain whether that ad is accurate or not.

This is an ad for the same comic on amazon that lists it as a 1984 comic.

The cover that amazon uses is different...but the customer reviews seem to indicate that it is indeed the same comic. So all I can tell you is if that 1977 edition isn't the one that has the panel I posted then look for one specified as a 1984 edition.

u/notjonathanfrakes · 8 pointsr/NewPatriotism

Normally I'm a lurker/upvoter, but I'll comment.

If you want a really interesting perspective on this part of our history, read The Killer Angels trilogy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345433726/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_BXs7Cb6V07DMM

I don't think the author was of that ilk, but you can see how some people justify certain views with that series' perspective on the conflict/people. I was taught in school that R.E.L. was a man of honor, brilliant tactician, and a someone who believed Virginia was his country and it needed defending from an imperial federal invasion. Someone to be venerated, flawed perhaps, but still honorable. NOT a symbol of racism.

I have since learned better. For many of us, the current state of faux-patriotism covering up racism and fascism is sad and troubling, but not surprising.