Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy about a mind-blowing concept called primary loyalty. Despite being written 101 years ago, Orthodoxy gets me every time. Here's an excerpt:
"If a man loves some feature of [a city]... he may find himself defending that feature against [the city] itself. But if he simply loves [the city] itself, he may lay it waste and turn it into the New Jerusalem."
there's a new idea... let's love our city, our state, and our country, just because it's ours. Isn't it more fun to love than be a cynic?
