Re: Repulsion binds atoms

"Edward Green" <spamspamspam3@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Your views
sound something like Ken Muldrew's,

Yikes! I hope not.

another Canadian wont to sometimes
publish here, and also an outlier in the "90-80" IQ theory -- though I
don't know if he's from Ontario.

2000 miles West.

From an American's point of view, although I've heard parts of your
country have a distinctly anglophobe outlook, I have not heard any of
the self-righteous anti-Americanism which sometimes emanates from other
corners of the world, so, without any strong evidence one way or the
other, I think of your native land as a Pretty Good Place. Maybe it's
that old British Commonwealth comraderie... excluding, of course, above
referenced francophiles.

Canada is intimately tied to the US in almost all aspects of life. As
a former prime minister put it, "Living next to you is in some ways
like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and
even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by
every twitch and grunt.." So, obviously, when people are affected by
policies and behaviors that are out of their control, they tend to
grumble. In this sense, there is a perpetual self-righteous tribalism
where one group pokes fun at a larger entity. An American would have
to try pretty hard, though, to actually get people around here to be
impolite toward them. In fact, according to the US consulate, there
are approximately 80,000 US citizens living in my city (Calgary), so
it's not like Americans are exotic tourists around here.

And yet, the irony is he
would hardly have escaped self-serving government corruption and palace
politics;

No, but perhaps there would be new coffee houses to hold court in,
exotic wines to fuel the old indignation; a renewal of spirit, however
futile.

Ken Muldrew
kmuldrezw@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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