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by Y_Y 602 days ago
Fwiw I upvoted you. To be fair to Murrow he's talking about not being afraid to resist McCarthyism.

As for general jingoistic propaganda, it's as old as time. I'd also consider it immoral and irrational. Interesting though, as it benefits societies and not (fighting) individuals, and so should have a complex evolutionary dynamics (maybe like with worker bees). _Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori_.