I guess I'm only fixating on that word because it seems to be quite an unhealthy fixation for some other people. And I think it's frequently used utterly unquestionably by perfectly well-meaning people in a particularly fatuous way.

You can bet that all the courageous people who made the good things about the UK good did not achieve what they achieved because they were sitting around feeling proud about their great-grandparents.

They were too busy getting on with stuff - seeing what was wrong and making it right.