what it must be like
live where feel antipathy
to your own country
In the article, The New Yorker at 100: ‘We live in a world of misinformation … a lack of verification. Our readers want what we do’, written by Andrew Anthony for the Guardian, the editor of the New Yorker Magazine is quoted thusly:
Even so, [David] Remnick says he’s not experienced anything before like the second term of Donald Trump.
“It’s not one event,” he says. “It’s 10 events a day. It’s 20 astonishing posts on Truth Social in a given week.
I lived in the Soviet Union for four years and one of the things that always emotionally struck me was what it must be like to live in a place where you feel such antipathy to your own country.
One feels a sense of shame to hear one’s own president brand a heroic figure like Zelenskyy a dictator, and to see how he deals in an opposite way with Vladimir Putin.
But how to cover that on a human level, on a factual level, on an institutional level, is a challenge.”
Growing up in America, I remember a joke told about a feller in China who wanted to move to America.
When he applied for his visa, he was asked, “Don’t you love your Country?”
“Yes!,” he said, “I would say I LOVE my Country!”
“Don’t you love your Government?”
“Yes!,” he said, “I would say I LOVE my Government!”
“Don’t you love your Leaders?”
“Yes!,” he said, “I would say I LOVE my Leaders!”
“So why do you want to leave?”
“I want to live somewhere where I DON’T HAVE TO SAY THAT!”
Why does it feel like we are going to find out what it’s like to live outside that somewhere.
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