Is It Evil to Be Patriotic?
Yesterday I read a post on social media. The post was authored by a highly-visible (at least in the woo community) American astrologer. In it, they stopped just shy of saying they were embarrassed to be Americans themselves. My personal views aside, I wanted to see what the Akashic Records had to say about it.
July 6, 2023
Q: Is celebrating the 4th of July the same as celebrating the flaws of our nation’s history?
A: Yes, but the same way celebrating a birthday marks all events leading up to that marker, both good and bad. Mistakes and successes are inevitable for it is not possible for a growing, dynamic thing to not grow and as such have pain points and places from which it’s grown. A human being’s birthday marks and even celebrates all of that year and years leading up to the now moment, needing and having no justification other than being. Often a human being does not ask to be born to its parents, in its home with financial difficulties, rather it seeks only comfort in its mother’s arms and father’s love and care. To celebrate a nation’s birthdate is to indeed celebrate all of it, flaws and successes but not celebrate as in give its belief systems credence if they are not aligned to your own, but rather to celebrate, again, its growth and the amount it has changed and progresses and setbacks made—again it goes back to experience. People want something pure to celebrate, but they are not likely to find it in people or people governing people, which is a country. Good exists but it does so in conjunction and contrast with the dark. Do not shame the parts of the past that would keep you shackled, but instead celebrate changes, success, progress made and envision even further where you see your country going. The manifestation of a good country comes by way of the hearts and hands of people who have tasted bitter and want better. The principles, however grandly phrased by founding fathers, will always end up coming up short, falling flat, because people can see and dream of what they want at times, but in the doing—the fulfillment—of said goals, they fail, falter, lack focus or integrity to see it through. They are never perfect but the dreams they had for their fellow people and posterity has merit and should not be dismissed offhandedly. Many people felt akin in their souls to the mission of a free nation that they decided their lives were a fit price for such a prize.