I have engaged in dinner table talk with the teenage children of a French friend, and they had no difficulty in being both interested and interesting. The priceless moment is when one asks permission to pull out the smartphone to research and attempt to refute something I have said.
Wow, that’s amazing! Imagine that - no faces stuck to smartphones at the table! Just normal conversation - with teenagers, too. And asking permission to look up something on their phone!
A scene that would really shock good ol’ America, so surreal and fantastic it might seem to them.
I feel like Europe is lost, but then I hear something thoughtful and promising from its youth, many of whom get it. The comment of my friend when thanking us for dinner was, “I learn new things about my children when we have dinner with you.”
Very nice .But Nagy's 'destructive entitlement ' is key here . Democracy is NOT in possession of the conceptural tools to deal with suchlike - only being able to circumscribe the limits of desire - perjoratively ,unable to discern desire from envy ,in all its societal ; intrinsic forms .
For example - Tito's palace on the hill in Belgrade has an amazing outdoor gym - for everyone - free ,14 very useful ,sharable machines -in his favorite park nearby .
The nearest equivalences in NL do indeed exist ,but Frances's >2000metre lake for octogenerains plus - within steady walking distance from a car park near Valloire is my favourite .Lie down higher up - in the heather ,hidden - and 80-90 year old voices drift across the shallow mountain lake ,wonderfully disembodied .Such a playground ,that Marc Facebook could never achieve ,were he to be given centuries of Musk's deliberate ; misperceptive dead ends .
The disease is not deterministic - which is where the fag ends of democracy meet the rotting entrails of a dying communism - it is not children who will be saved through childbirth - but MOTHERS(!) ,as St Paul astutely portrays .
Case in point - to my absurd delight - a dutch mother ,having married an eminent serb had two exellent teeange twins - who all together made the decades long trip , through serb Belgrade airport customs & security .She held forth eloquently in dutch to every question posed ,while the security patiently listened (for their own good)-not understanding a word .
They always let her through first time ,whereupon I asked her ,in admiration at her steel balls -why she dared 'that' .
Quickly it came to light that she point blank refused serb/balkan norms of mothering ; which I had had a decade to formulate in exactitude of agreement ...
'Mother & sons FAR too close ' - and that was the excuse for the disgusting western advertising to shame the complexions of the young girls ,makeup indeed - the sun gave them so much better complexions that those mysogenists using skin calvinism ,or is it Calvin Kleine (?) - to ensure loss of identity as a mature woman ,oxymoronic as that process may be .
But dutch parenting is much worse than 'english' .The enlightened nl mother being an exception that proves the 'rule'
Complaining is the en mass tactic aka Marc Rutte -majority futures option of dutch Shell future shareholders ,however infantilised
There is no question this is but the tip of iceberg .
(If Arkan is still alive ,as a french NATO interrogator ,just before 2020 -went to unusual lengths to convince (me) of ,much against my will ; as well as A's wife ,turbo idol 'Ceca's' castle ,Ambassador Avenue number 1 ,is the biggest in the whole diplomatic zone,and still growing in stature )
If ,as Politiekorpschef Harlemmeer (Amsterdam)- stipulated ,with unmissable accuracy and fury ,that AVID actively planned Arkan's 1981 escape ,as organ of later genocie in Vukovar ,strikingly convenient for Clinton's banning of South stream Baku - Belgrade .
It was replaced by Baku -Durres -which actually has russian oligarchs still effectively squatting ,now over decades ,Albanian parlimentarians's unofficially stolen mansions .I was told this by an adult son of Albanian Parlimentarian .
So it is deeply hypocritical for Shell to have been indicted for 16 years of African genocide ,in a dutch court, fined a measewly 10 million euros :- and NOT investigate Shell's 43% 'futures' Rosneft interest immediately subsequent to Vukovar 's Clintonised stigmatisation of the serbs in general .
Additionally I was told by senior Albanian commanders that ,after 17 000 from Tropoye's'-plus environs were live coached by SAS and MI6 to run across the 2km distant Kosovo border ,as if 100 000 were fleeing .
ALL Murdoch media ran this as fact .
The very worst parenting I have ever seen is the serbian /balkan 'overmothering' .
This makes the english look like chimpanzee tea party specialists .
Wheras the americans BELIEVE they themselves ARE the tea ,subtle difference .
My wife and I don't have children but have friends in France. This is just spot on!
I have engaged in dinner table talk with the teenage children of a French friend, and they had no difficulty in being both interested and interesting. The priceless moment is when one asks permission to pull out the smartphone to research and attempt to refute something I have said.
Wow, that’s amazing! Imagine that - no faces stuck to smartphones at the table! Just normal conversation - with teenagers, too. And asking permission to look up something on their phone!
A scene that would really shock good ol’ America, so surreal and fantastic it might seem to them.
I feel like Europe is lost, but then I hear something thoughtful and promising from its youth, many of whom get it. The comment of my friend when thanking us for dinner was, “I learn new things about my children when we have dinner with you.”
Very nice .But Nagy's 'destructive entitlement ' is key here . Democracy is NOT in possession of the conceptural tools to deal with suchlike - only being able to circumscribe the limits of desire - perjoratively ,unable to discern desire from envy ,in all its societal ; intrinsic forms .
For example - Tito's palace on the hill in Belgrade has an amazing outdoor gym - for everyone - free ,14 very useful ,sharable machines -in his favorite park nearby .
The nearest equivalences in NL do indeed exist ,but Frances's >2000metre lake for octogenerains plus - within steady walking distance from a car park near Valloire is my favourite .Lie down higher up - in the heather ,hidden - and 80-90 year old voices drift across the shallow mountain lake ,wonderfully disembodied .Such a playground ,that Marc Facebook could never achieve ,were he to be given centuries of Musk's deliberate ; misperceptive dead ends .
The disease is not deterministic - which is where the fag ends of democracy meet the rotting entrails of a dying communism - it is not children who will be saved through childbirth - but MOTHERS(!) ,as St Paul astutely portrays .
Case in point - to my absurd delight - a dutch mother ,having married an eminent serb had two exellent teeange twins - who all together made the decades long trip , through serb Belgrade airport customs & security .She held forth eloquently in dutch to every question posed ,while the security patiently listened (for their own good)-not understanding a word .
They always let her through first time ,whereupon I asked her ,in admiration at her steel balls -why she dared 'that' .
Quickly it came to light that she point blank refused serb/balkan norms of mothering ; which I had had a decade to formulate in exactitude of agreement ...
'Mother & sons FAR too close ' - and that was the excuse for the disgusting western advertising to shame the complexions of the young girls ,makeup indeed - the sun gave them so much better complexions that those mysogenists using skin calvinism ,or is it Calvin Kleine (?) - to ensure loss of identity as a mature woman ,oxymoronic as that process may be .
But dutch parenting is much worse than 'english' .The enlightened nl mother being an exception that proves the 'rule'
Complaining is the en mass tactic aka Marc Rutte -majority futures option of dutch Shell future shareholders ,however infantilised
There is no question this is but the tip of iceberg .
(If Arkan is still alive ,as a french NATO interrogator ,just before 2020 -went to unusual lengths to convince (me) of ,much against my will ; as well as A's wife ,turbo idol 'Ceca's' castle ,Ambassador Avenue number 1 ,is the biggest in the whole diplomatic zone,and still growing in stature )
If ,as Politiekorpschef Harlemmeer (Amsterdam)- stipulated ,with unmissable accuracy and fury ,that AVID actively planned Arkan's 1981 escape ,as organ of later genocie in Vukovar ,strikingly convenient for Clinton's banning of South stream Baku - Belgrade .
It was replaced by Baku -Durres -which actually has russian oligarchs still effectively squatting ,now over decades ,Albanian parlimentarians's unofficially stolen mansions .I was told this by an adult son of Albanian Parlimentarian .
So it is deeply hypocritical for Shell to have been indicted for 16 years of African genocide ,in a dutch court, fined a measewly 10 million euros :- and NOT investigate Shell's 43% 'futures' Rosneft interest immediately subsequent to Vukovar 's Clintonised stigmatisation of the serbs in general .
Additionally I was told by senior Albanian commanders that ,after 17 000 from Tropoye's'-plus environs were live coached by SAS and MI6 to run across the 2km distant Kosovo border ,as if 100 000 were fleeing .
ALL Murdoch media ran this as fact .
The very worst parenting I have ever seen is the serbian /balkan 'overmothering' .
This makes the english look like chimpanzee tea party specialists .
Wheras the americans BELIEVE they themselves ARE the tea ,subtle difference .
Total sanity! How rare!
Teresa, this is brilliant. I've seen her before. Just brilliant. Thank you!