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Our adaptation to society as infants and children has left us without the courage and confidence required to go against the flow of society. We have the freedom but not the energy and courage to overcome the blind habit of conformity.
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Define 'our', 'we' and 'us'.
Personally I do not see a flag as being worthy of killing or dying for. That said I would take up arms and defend my country were it to be invaded. Does that make me a hopeless conformist? And what of the 'new set' of meaningful symbols? Will they be worth dying and killing for?
I get the impression that you believe humanity to be fundamentally broken. I also get the impression that the very last thing you would look to to fix that break is politics. Imagination is the instrument by which we will overcome is it? Overcome what? Overcome how?
Your posts hint at some deep philosophy but I fear in reality, they point to a lack of understanding.