Why Patriotism Is A Disease That Has Plagued Humanity “Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.” – Albert Einstein What is Patriotism: devoted love, support, and defense of one’s country.  From birth we are instilled to pledge allegiance to a flag. A flag that represents the sliver of land that we call a country. That in some cases at one time was conquered through genocide and bloodshed. A sliver of land confining us by arbitrary borders as we have become nothing but domesticated cattle. Just flocks among flocks. To devote ourselves to this piece of  land, to die for this land. We go on thinking that…