Our Founding redefined nationhood along social-contract lines that Europeans can still only theorize about. Our love of nation at its best was ethical, not ethnic. Our patriotism was loyalty not to race, or even to tradition, but to ideals of individual liberty and republican self-governance.
Most of his article is about how Hollywood's view of war has shifted. War is always brutal and inhuman, and that hasn't changed. But unlike the films made in the 1940s, Hollywood since Vietnam has chosen to portray America as unworthy of fighting for.
When you fight for America you're fighting for certain elements of software. It's the software that matters.
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