ONE YEAR IN EXILE : THE EXPERIENCE OF DETOXING FROM AMERICA (Some random thought

ONE YEAR IN EXILE : THE EXPERIENCE OF DETOXING FROM AMERICA

(Some random thoughts after 51 weeks in Ukraine.)

WHAT DO I MISS?

1) Cleanliness. I miss ‘clean’. I like clean and tidy and pretty, all wrapped up in a victorian bow. Everything is dirty here. Everything. The commons is something that does not exist in though, action, or practice.

2) Movies. I pretty much go to every movie that comes out. And for the past year I haven’t seen anything that isn’t on Amazon.

3) “Really Well Educated People”. They don’t exist here. Russian grade school is fantastic. But that is aging out of the school system here too. Russian university education is…. weak. Extremely weak. Surprisingly so. IT’s metaphysical. I can’t put my finger on it. But you know, for every idiot in the social sciences we have in america, the people on this side of the world have an idiot in the natural sciences.

4) Customer Service. American customer service is amazing. You can’t really shop here either. The choices are very limited. and “Doing things right.”. People sort of hack everything together. Every repair of everything is done without pride or professionalism.

The USA is clean. And the ‘really smart people’ are actually ‘really smart’. Unfortunately everyone OTHER than the ‘really smart people’ has been failed by our indoctrinating ‘equalitarian-diversity-promoting’ education system, and that vast numbers of ignorant disillusioned self righteous, entitlement seeking morons walk the streets like not-quite-yet-zombies on the verge of changing entirely into rabid spittle-spewing animals, while the few civilized folk armor themselves in heavy german cars, gated neighborhoods and fortified homes in a desperate attempt to keep both the state and the barbarians at bay.

WHAT DO I LOVE?

1) The people are… really the best I have ever encountered in the world. They are gentle, sweet, helpful, kind, loving and so beautiful that I never cease to be awed by it.

2) Men are men and women are women, and families are the most important social unit, and that turns out to be so damned awesome for everyone.

3) You can walk through a city part at midnight and the only danger is that you’ll interrupt a couple kissing under a tree.

4) Everyone understands how evil government is, because corruption that we in the states have institutionalized but is invisible, is very visible, and personal here.

I don’t miss America and its internecine conflict. I don’t miss the hatred of white christian males. The inescapable narcissism. Being inundated by lame and tragic advertising. Mind numbing commercialism. I don’t miss watching my country and civilization die at the hands of the left’s war on any form of reason, or judgement that can exist.

Those things I do miss are the few things that remain symbols of the middle class that they desperately cling to as their only symbol of self respect, while the institutional, cultural, and physical world crumbles around them.

All they have left is their consumption, their homes and cars. Because there is no ‘we’ left. No commons. No truth and beauty. Nothing.