Only dumb people are patriots

And this is a fact. Only a mentally challenged person would pledge his loyalty to a piece of land and the authority that governs it.

To understand it, think about the time before you held the notion that "nothing in he material world is important".
You received information about the philosophical position that "nothing in he material world is important" and you were convinced by it. Now imagine it didn't happen: but from your future perspective this information would be important as "liberating insight".