Because they have an audience, you don’t.

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Some people here would speak in a very different tone if they received recurrent zaps from Pfizer, political parties and the government.

True. Selling outrage over what Orwell called “petty specific grievances” makes for a larger audience.

Interesting part of this quote though, is they missed something.

The central gov’t is attempting to destroy patriotism currently.

I’m not really an Orwell scholar, but I think what he meant by “primitive patriotism” is “loyalty to the Regime”. Instead of what we might traditionally label patriotism as a “common loyalty”, not to a government, land, or people, but to founding, Natural Law values.

Central government is certainly attempting to destroy the latter.