Jordan~ wrote:Basically, Facebook groups were appearing including, "Burn the cunts who burnt the poppies". This, I feel, is out of line. Regardless of whether or not you agree with the poppy-burners, surely the very reason British people have died in war in the last hundred years is to defend our right to do just that, to express our dissatisfaction in whatever way we feel to be proportionate?
As for the supernatural element, I have seen genuine attempts to put words into the mouth of Old Glory. When you anthropomorphise something and lend an object a character of its own, you are expressing, consciously or otherwise, the belief in a spirit or an essence of this thing - to say that Old Glory has its own words to speak is to animise Old Glory. Anthropologists interpret these things very broadly because we don't believe that the majority of people have the faintest idea why they do a single thing that they do. That's the job of us and the psychologists to work out.
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