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देशभक्ती-Patriotism म्हणजे काय ? देश म्हणजे काय ? सरकार म्हणजे देश का ?
हे शिकण्यासाठी कॅप्टन अमेरिकासारखा आदर्श दुसरा नसेल !

सिव्हिल वॉर हे कॉमिक वाचताना कॅप्टन अमेरिका आणि त्याचा खंबीर नैतिक पवित्रा मनात घर करून राहतो...
त्यातील एक प्रसंग अप्रतिम आहे... तो इथे शेअर 1/13

करत आहे...

स्पायडरमॅनला कॅप्टन अमेरिका देशभक्ती म्हणजे काय हे समजवतो आहे ! त्या कथेत कॅप्टनला टोनी आणि अन्य हिरोज् 'गुन्हेगार' ठरवतात... एकेकाळी राष्ट्राचे गौरवचिन्ह असलेला कॅप्टन Outlaw बनतो, Wanted बनतो... तेव्हा स्पायडरमॅन त्याला याबद्दल विचारतो...

देशभक्तीचे अढळ 2/13

चिन्ह बनलेल्या माणसाला व्यवस्था जेव्हा देशद्रोही ठरवते- तेव्हा तुला कसं वाटतं- हे सगळं तू सहन कसं करतोस असा स्पायडरमॅनचा प्रश्न असतो...
त्यावर कॅप्टन अमेरिकाने दिलेलं उत्तर विचार करायला भाग पाडणारं आहे...

कॅप्टनचं ते जबरदस्त उत्तर हे असं आहे :

“I was just a kid…A 3/13

million years ago, it seems sometimes. Maybe twelve. I was reading Mark Twain.

And he wrote something that struck me right down to my core…something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized it so I could repeat it to myself, over and over across the 4/13

years. He wrote –‘In a republic, who is the country?

Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why, the government is merely a temporary servant: it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and 5/13

who isn’t. It’s function is to obey orders, not originate them.

Who, then is the country? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it, they have not command, they have only their little share in the command.

In a 6/13

monarchy, the king and his family are the country: In a republic it is the common voice of the people each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

It is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the 7/13

bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians.

Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man.

To decide it against your convictions 8/13

is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.

If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions of the right, you have your duty by 9/13

yourself and by your country. Hold up your head. You have nothing to be ashamed of’.

Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation 10/13

was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, 11/13

and tell the whole world–

–No you move.”

हे उत्तर ऐकून स्पायडरमॅन त्या युद्धात बाजू बदलतो ! टोनी स्टार्कला गॉडफादर मानणारा स्पायडरमॅन आता कॅप्टनचा सोल्जर बनलेला असतो !!

हिरो विरुद्ध व्हिलनच्या मारामारीपेक्षा हिरो विरुद्ध हिरोमधील द्वंद्व जास्त महत्त्वाचं असतं ते 12/13

याचसाठी....

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