Intermission
Well, with the completion of the last of my assignments last week, which had been totally consuming, now comes a period of relative rest. Come March, I will find myself again in the dark recesses of various libraries and corners of the internet working on another round of essays. But for now….freedom. So now what?
‘In other news’ I’ve finally gotten around to reading “The World is Flat,” the most recent book by the ever insightful Thomas Friedman. This book, like his others, tackles and tries to demystify our ever changing globalized world and how the past four years have made the world flat…on page 87 so far. He is neither a hardcore capitalist, nor a British Labour Party socialist, but somewhere right in the middle…perhaps a true compassionate conservative.
Which brings me to my next point…British government. It strikes me that despite the similarities between English and North American cultures, it stops there, at culture. The government here is completely socialist, I can’t beleive how much faith citizens here place in their bureaucracy. Maybe its apathy by a discongruent people, but in no other place, save Japan, have I witnessed a government mentality that acts as a shepard to its sheep. But we are not sheep!!!
Living here has made me appreciate America’s (relatively) hands-off government ideology. Now I can truly understand why the tea went into the harbor.
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