POST-DEMOCRATIC PATRIOTISM: THE ARISTOCRATIC CONTRACT I don’t like the word patr

POST-DEMOCRATIC PATRIOTISM: THE ARISTOCRATIC CONTRACT

I don’t like the word patriot, because it suggests fealty to church or state. Instead: the obligation of every man who accepts the aristocratic contract is to deny power to any and all over any and all.

In this sense patriotism is impossible for members of the aristocracy because it implies a moral choice rather than a necessary contractual obligation to all other members of the aristocratic corporation.