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The un-fun of losing one’s privacy.

Those sushi waiters, they can be scary people: "They pointed an stun gun at a waiter and demanded the cash from the till, but the staff grabbed kitchen knives and charged at the men," .

An essay-in-sculpture about national stereotypes has got some folk worked up.

Read this article by Bruce Bawer. Now read his

Comments

Re: Violence and social order

[jordan179]

Americans believe in social order as something worth defending by violence if necessary.

Well, yes. For the very good reason that, if you don't defend the social order by violence if necessary, the result will be far MORE violence in the long run. How can the Europeans fail to almost-instinctively grasp this reality?

Europeans, and the European elites in particular, have a whole lot of hang ups about social order and using violence to defend it.

The World Wars, yes. But did they miss that the Second World War happened because they were unwilling to defend the League's global order with violence, until it was too late?

Having an elite which tends to buttress their sense of status by reacting against their own culture, history, past etc is also, as they say, not helpful.

I've come to believe that the European elite is very uncomfortable with a liberal society, and is hoping to use the immigrants as their "dogs" to bring it to an end. I think the elite are fools -- they too will be brought down in the end by the unleashing of those kind of forces.

They constantly prattle about American ignorance of history, but it doesn't look to me as if they've studied any history either. Particularly of their own continent.

After all, they are repeating the pattern of events, almost exactly, that brought the Weimar Republic down. And all over Western and Southern Europe, which makes it all the worse.