Britain Today.

[Ninurta]

But it was here in the terrain of the semi-rural plebians that patriotism still existed. The belief of losing loved-ones in
conflict is a social-facet that been with us since we lived in trees and is a trophy that anyone from any strata of society
can proudly display above their mantle-piece. The ultimate sacrifice for family and country, it can make even the lowest
of a communal order has the opportunity of something larger.

It was this northern-embedded patriotism that scrawled a cross into the 'Leave' box during the 2016 referendum.

Some things must be universal. It's the same here in the States - the less-urban areas are also the last refuge of "patriotism" here. Maybe, the folks living closer to the land, closer to the vagaries of nature, have a firmer grasp on just what "freedom" means, and is.

it's not having the latest iphone in order to be able to jack-in to your closest few thousand friends in order for them to be able to give your opinion to you from across the electroscape. It's being able to figure out for yourself what you think, and how you should react and act to any particular set of stimuli outside yourself.

It's being able to decide for yourself, and act accordingly, absent the restraints of ever-increasing and nested layers upon layers of other folks telling you what to do, how to act, and what to think. Ruralites, I believe, have a better grasp on that concept due to the nature of their interaction with life that often demands a more immediate response than simply waiting for orders from on high about how to handle it. It's the inactivity of that waiting period that'll kill ya.

Younger folks these days, in general, and urbanites in particular, seem to have lost all connection to being able to decide anything for themselves, which is the very essence of "freedom".

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