Mythic pain
The trouble is with our country - the real trouble is-
tat we appear to have country body image disorder.
We see our rather prosperous, forceful and aggressive land, with its relatively strong government and limited abuse o human rights, and rich cultural background, as a poor victim in the world - endless corrupt and badly run governed - and always threatened.
the reason is perhaps two old.
We have a culture of assuming the past was better, be it our childhood or the nations history. All decisions were of course easier in the past (well they are from the present anyway), and all values more certain (again from the present).. The past is then ours as the present is not, - and we mourn it.
Secondly this nostalgia is particuliary and orchestrate to sell new paper, and raise hell. It becomes then a campaigning issue - a campaing that makes us feel bad about our country and ourselves o sell newspapers - or make good copy.
a fact we then seem to daffy to realize...
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