The powerful spiritual strength of national rejuvenation is the core of national cohesion and centripetal force. Therefore, we should attach importance to the great social role of patriotism and persistently carry out patriotic education.
Due to the need of survival, human beings form a society, and with the help of the power of groups, they can easily obtain survival resources and obtain protection. People have a sense of attachment and glory to the comfort, tranquility, wealth, superiority and security provided by the ethnic group they live in. In order to ensure the interests of production and life, people spontaneously safeguard the integrity of this ethnic group. This is the simplest nationalism.
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Patriotism should be spontaneous, derived from the basic concept of interests and conscience, and seems to be dissolved in people's blood and cannot be fundamentally eliminated. Because almost everyone has this potential, the ruler is very sensitive to realize that this is a powerful force, and if it cannot be surrendered, it may be surrendered.
Therefore, for a long time, nationalism has been carefully controlled by the rulers, who try their best to interpret themselves as the core value symbol of nationalism. The torrent of nationalism is like a whirlpool, and the rulers always try to play the center of the whirlpool.
In the post-totalitarian era, due to the monopoly of information, nationalist sentiment is easier to control than before, and rulers control people's emotions by monopolizing media and education.
In this era of "planned thinking", people's smiles, happiness and anger are calculated and designed. On the surface, people's heartfelt emotions have already fallen into the preset patterns of those people.