So I feel like being in another country requires a patience that is difficult to come by. I think that my biggest hassle wherever I go is the lack of functionality. Maybe that is my fault. Maybe my comfortable egotistical modern American lifestyle has spoiled me. I want what I want when I want it, and that just doesn’t happen once I leave the comfort of the US. I guess I like to think that our nature is less bureaucratic. It seems to me that it is. I guess that’s why people pay the bribes elsewhere. It is easier to pay the bribes, than wade the mazelike government structure that is paternalistically “helping” the people.
I wonder if Obama’s administration will lead us that way. People are calling it a new day, and I guess for me, it is very positive too. The conversations about the Great American Devil have stalled, if but for a moment. I just have a hard time thinking that some well-intentioned actions have disastrous consequences.
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