wondering about the condition of mankind in the English Speaking World these days, we might consider facts, as reported by the BBC today
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During the year I've been here, I've been astonished at the continued two-facedness of Britain as a whole, still unwilling to own up to it's divisive and conflicted past and present.
I find it irritating that so many of them are so patronizing of the US, which, despite its foibles, is at least attempting to come to grips with Western multiple-personality disorder.
They think we talk too much. What they don't understand is that we're trying to come to terms with the abusive nature of our drunken, abusive, now generally complacent mother.
Before I came here, I thought of Britain and friends as something like a wise elder. Although that is still true in certain respects, I cannot get over the feeling that the country is, on the whole, a kind of national version of the relationship between Norman Bates and his mother.
Agree with all the stuff about UKwaltwritesSeptember 13 2005, 20:07:56 UTC
but I think you give this country way too much slack. The mythology England deals with is "being an empire" - the mythology we deal with is being "the first and finest democracy." Acutally I think England's problem is a little more basis in reality, having once ruled most of western Europe, and then much of the world. Where as ours is just a lie - never were, and at the rate we're going, never will be.
I read on the BBC that when questioned about why they would want to change governments in the country with the like highest standard of living ever, Norwegians were like, Maybe we should give someone else a chance. They're bored, those people, bored at the top.
At least I think it was Norwegians. I'm sure it wasn't Mexicans.
Actually what I heard on BBCwaltwritesSeptember 13 2005, 20:10:29 UTC
was a Norwegian editor saying that the conservative party that was defeated had been created to "limit immigration" or, to put a point on it, keep out brown people.....and that the very white, very blond (and often very cute) Norwegians as a group decided they could use some brown people. (For what I can't imagine.)
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I find it irritating that so many of them are so patronizing of the US, which, despite its foibles, is at least attempting to come to grips with Western multiple-personality disorder.
They think we talk too much. What they don't understand is that we're trying to come to terms with the abusive nature of our drunken, abusive, now generally complacent mother.
Before I came here, I thought of Britain and friends as something like a wise elder. Although that is still true in certain respects, I cannot get over the feeling that the country is, on the whole, a kind of national version of the relationship between Norman Bates and his mother.
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At least I think it was Norwegians. I'm sure it wasn't Mexicans.
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