"There is no such thing as the "status quo" in society or in government. Things can get worse, or they can get better. And your government needs you if it's going to get better."
Alex Torpey - the local revolution
Watch this space.
About the Russian fascination with the West which might soon, finally, start to wane.
...«Господи, да какие же мы русские? — мелькало у меня подчас в голове в эту минуту, всё в том же вагоне. — Действительно ли мы русские в самом-то деле? Почему Европа имеет на нас, кто бы мы ни были, такое сильное, волшебное, призывное впечатление? То есть я не про тех русских теперь говорю, которые там остались, ну вот про тех простых русских, которым имя пятьдесят миллионов, которых мы, сто тысяч человек, до сих пор пресерьезно за никого считаем...” ФМ Достоевский
...“Lord, what kind of Russians are we?”flashed through my mind from time to time while I was on the train. Äre we in fact really Russians?”Why does Europe create such a powerful, magical, alluring impression on us, no matter who we might be? That is, I am not speaking now of those Russians who have remained in Russia, those simple Russians whose name is fifty million, whom we hundred thousand to this day seriously regard as nobodies..."
FM Dostoevsky
Being a visitor
Visitors are like deaf mutes. The emphasis goes on what's visible to the eye on one hand, and on the other those impreceptible details the intuition picks up that locals are probably oblivious to. The middle frequencies are largely shut out.
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