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To: LindyBill who wrote (698565)	12/13/2019 10:46:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 794358

It's weird to see the scale of geopolitical changes just in my lifetime. I thought things moved slower. As a child the British Empire and its glories including USA which is just an offshoot was amazing. England shriveled to an also-ran and even Mighty USA is teeter tottering on a tipping point but not a fake one like the Greenhouse Effect tipping points which keep coming and going with nothing happening. To think that eastern Europe and Russia might be bastions of civilisation seems weird after a century of failure and carnage. I guess Germans will not go quietly. A few decades ago I watched some tough young German men in leather jackets drinking beer and thought ... note to self = these guys are going to be heard from again. They were not soy-boys like 2-faced Trudeau. But having grown up in Mangere and lived in Brixton and been places there is a good aspect to mongrel. London is a pretty cool place though the riots were annoying and trying to get a group of rough loud aggro young Negro males from a children's playground was probably not worth the risk to my life. The regular murders were horrible too... on the streets where we lived. Horrible Chavs are bad too. In 1974 when we arrived the bloody IRA was bombing left right and centre. I'd regularly pass a newly bombed place. Watching for anything left on a Tube was normal. Living in Brixton (mostly Negro) was cheap and pleasant. But the trends are bad. There's a word for the psychological effect on Japanese when they go to Paris. Their imagination and reality don't match = cognitive dissonance. Here it is= pari shokogun. Paris syndrome (French: syndrome de Paris, Japanese: ?????, pari shokogun) is a condition exhibited by some individuals when visiting or going on vacation to Paris, as a result of extreme shock at discovering that Paris is different from their expectations. Mqurice