I am the most unpatriotic person...

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Because I cant stand the fact that we have a minister who has more than 6 children and he doesnt remember the sequence of their birth and tends to forget their names..we cant have a good population control policy because of this man!!! I feel ashamed of the fact that we are contributing to the world's undesirable population, effectively increasing the cost of food across the world and making more people poor, I feel ashamed of the fact that our industrialists are forced to resort to underhand means to survive as industrialists.. the sequence goes like this, we have too much of population, so we have more demand and less supply, which makes any good or service profitable, effectively giving good returns to business, but the business has to get a license, and to get a license the licensing officer expects some greasing of palms. After all, he has more choice as well. Most industrialists have become experts at greasing palms. But - to be fair - the Industrialist is patriotic because he is preventing foreign goods from entering the country, effectively saving hefty sums of dollars for my country. He also keeps people employed so that they dont get time to reflect on whatever is happening. This means politicians are not thrown out of their seats rapidly. He might be saving these people from committing suicide for all that I know. Because if they realize what a no win situation they are in, and the bleak future that awaits the future generation, they wouldnt want to live! He also exports goods and brings in foreign exchange. I was told Nano is an indigenous car. But after a couple of Nanos burst into flames, I realized that indigenous cars can have foreign parts. I feel ashamed I didnt know that! And oh - it was again a petrol/ diesel car! My country doesnt have enough petrol or diesel, why do we need a car that guzzles up fossil fuels when we can have two wheelers that give more than double that mileage? Is common man's desire to own a car more important than the forex problem because of petrol/diesel? Rise in demand for petrol results in higher petrol prices, and consequently rise in prices of basic necessities!!! I thought we were patriotic enough to understand that. I am impressed with the man who gives licenses for such thing. Especially the man who passes laws that says old vehicles should be scrapped after 15 or 20 years service, without a proper place or system to dump them or recycle them. I was reading about All Quiet on Western Front. I realized it is easy to talk about patriotism when my life is not in the line of fire. The truth about patriotism is completely different from what I understand or what the soldiers in that movie understood. I dont know if acknowledging flaws and starting to correct them would be patriotic or looking at other achievements while underplaying flaws would be more patriotic. For now I prefer to be unpatriotic because I am honestly so confused. (Sorry about the long post) Post script - I apologize in advance to people whose sentiments are hurt with this post. I also want to know if anybody else here feels it is ok to highlight the mistakes that their country is making or their countrymen make.