ColdLightOfDay
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My favourite quote on this comes from Schopenhauer;
The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
For example; if you speak of the stupid and degrading bigotry of the English nation with the contempt that it deserves, you will hardly find one Englishman in fifty to agree with you, but if you should find one, he should happen to be an intelligent man.
There are far better ways to cope than with national pride, or pride of any kind for that matter. If you truly believe in genetic determinism - as all who are blackpilled should - then all pride is rendered a lower form of cope. I believe egodeath is the noblest and most productive path for those born into lives with so little to be proud about, this allows you to laugh at those who consider themselves better than you simply for having been born into a different type of body.
The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own nation, it argues that he has no qualities of his own of which he can be proud; otherwise he would not have recourse to those which he shares with so many millions of his fellowmen. The man who is endowed with important personal qualities will be only too ready to see clearly in what respects his own nation falls short, since their failings will be constantly before his eyes. But every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud adopts, as a last resource, pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and glad to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
For example; if you speak of the stupid and degrading bigotry of the English nation with the contempt that it deserves, you will hardly find one Englishman in fifty to agree with you, but if you should find one, he should happen to be an intelligent man.
There are far better ways to cope than with national pride, or pride of any kind for that matter. If you truly believe in genetic determinism - as all who are blackpilled should - then all pride is rendered a lower form of cope. I believe egodeath is the noblest and most productive path for those born into lives with so little to be proud about, this allows you to laugh at those who consider themselves better than you simply for having been born into a different type of body.