A plain blue flag serves as the banner of the Invisible Whitmanian Republic: a non-state subsisting within the travesty that is the militarized corporatocracy calling itself the United States of America.
It is a declaration of difference, of The Great Refusal, of the determination not to be counted among the sublimated slaves of post-industrial civilization--those who have been enslaved "neither by obedience nor by hardness of labor but by the status of being a mere instrument," reduced to the state of a thing. (see H. Marcuse, One Dimensional Man, 32-33).
Declare your independence and your difference: on national holidays and occasions of state, on July 21 (the date of Emerson's letter to Whitman congratulating him on the first edition of Leaves of Grass), and on any date you damn well please:
Fly the blue flag and RESIST, REFUSE, RENOUNCE the violent consumerist catastrophe that now plagues the world.
Show your loyalty to the country's refounders: Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman.
Fly the blue flag!
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