Flag of the USA if it was a brutal authoritarian regime hell bent on destroying the entire world in the pursuit of endless GDP growth
Flag of the USA if it was a brutal authoritarian regime hell bent on destroying the entire world in the pursuit of endless GDP growth
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It’d be wild if that country had a national anthem that glorifies carnage and mythologizes a battle in a bourgeois revolution. Or maybe even if they forced their youth to pledge loyalty to that flag. I don’t know, I’m just spitballing. Sounds pretty cartoonish don’t you think?
The Battle of Baltimore took place during the War of 1812, not the Revolutionary War, and it doesn't really glorify the carnage since the poem is about the American defenders getting their teeth kicked in by the British Navy, but the flag remaining over the fort defending the entrance to the city till the British ran out of ammunition.
Despite that, the anthem still sucks. It was a good poem, but awful as a song. Pledge of allegiance is also absurd.
What can I say, I’m a product of the American education system.
Edit: Lol now after reading more about what the poem is actually about it’s even worse than I originally thought. There’s more verses that become increasingly more deranged.
Have you read the other verses? It gets worse
Wow, it’s genuinely awful. Never read the entire original poem, but that’s disgusting, Key should have quit while he was ahead with the first verse.
Looking it up- holy shit, you're right. And naturally the author was a slave-owner, an anti-abolitionist lawyer, and noted racist, which isn't particularly surprising when one reads the third verse onwards