To all you patriotic fucks out there.

Fuck you!
Ok, but seriously, you are one of the most idiotic sheeple, and I'm about to get to the reasons of why I think that.

Whenever there's a day that many of the citizens of the shithole I live in (and not just here) devote to visiting a stone structure and put plants that are condemned beside it, in order to seemingly show their respect for people that fell in war or fought for a certain government, my feelings (if I am aware of that, which is not often) are usually a mixup of pity and ironiy, and when I express that, I often hear that the people that participated in war were ''heroes'' or that they fought ''for a scumbag like me to live in a free country'', and I cannot help but get angry at the individual saying that.
First off, the argument that those people fought that I, or my generation would live in a free/good conditions is automatically false. Any state and government means lack of freedom, period. You cannot be free if you are restricted by anything, including laws. And you folks, to whom freedom means that you can vote for one of the lesser evils, rather than live without it, I cannot respect you. The people that died could not know what the outcome of my generation would be if they had lost the war, just as they could not have fought for me, because I simply didn't exist then, therefore, nobody could know what I'd want. This argument goes right into the arse.
Then there are folks who, instead of spewing out patriotic messages, start saying that ''you have to respect the dead.'' What? Why? Why do you have to respect the dead more than the people that are alive? And why the hell would you grant respect to someone, who doesn't deserve it according to your system of values? Not to mention that dead do not give a fuck what you think/say about them and whether or not you respect them. They are dead, they do not exist anymore. Just because your parents have taught you to respect the dead and you are brainless and gutless enough not to question that doesn't mean I will or should do the same.
Patriotism just seems like a completely idiotic thing to me. I mean, yes, you were born in a certain country, but, did you choose to do so? No, you were put here by chance. If you have positive feelings toward a certain country just because you were born or grew up there, you better start feeling patriotic for the whole world, cause, it could have been so that you would be born in another place/family/setting, since you didn't choose it. Why would you feel proud for something you never chose or had an impact on? It's like being proud with someone's contributions to society. You might as well as start being proud with Mona Lisa and Einsteins theories, to mention a few. That seems just plain dumb.
Same goes to loving relatives just because they are, well, your relatives. If people deserve to be treated good and loved by their actions, then they should be loved, but granting them such feelings just because they share certain genes with you seems as dumb to me as patriotism.
Oh, and returning to the dead do not care argument, can anyone explain me, what do you accomplish by showing respect to dead people and leaving flowers next to a stone structure? I certainly don't get the meaning behind such behaviour.