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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2024 05:40:10 +0000
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On 08/11/2024 20:56, D wrote:
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> 
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, rbowman wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 15:34:59 +0100, D wrote:
>>
>>> I have travelled all the world, and personally, I don't think there is
>>> much to be gained by travelling given all the possibilities we have
>>> today in terms of videos, documentaries, the internet etc.
>>
>> My fear is I would find nothing but another version of the US. I do not
>> say that with the assumption that the US is some unique, exceptional,
>> state. If i want to find a country overrun with third world invaders 
>> while
>> 'intellectuals' with mush for brains piss away the culture that created
>> the nation I do not have to go far.
>>
> 
> True. If you would like to experience a country with as few US 
> influences as possible, I'd recommend some of the enemies (at your own 
> risk of course) of the US such as China or a moslem country or two. 
> There is a certain charm to being "lost in translation", but in my case 
> that charm is not big enough to offset the trouble, lost time and cost 
> of the trip.

The only country I loathed being in was Islamic Turkey.

Africa is nothing like the USA. There is something to getting up in the 
morning and finding a giraffe standing in the road...

-- 
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale 
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

Mark Twain