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In Reply to: RE: Many of the best actors in the US went through dramatic posted by tinear on February 09, 2008 at 14:40:50
He-he... I have great recipe for dealing with such longing - go to a Russian language forum and try to talk sense into them - believe me, Outside is fourth-grade school girl locker by comparison.Of course the US is not the cultural capital of the world, but hey, I am not an Apollo and not Spinoza, but my wife loves me. You have to take the country in its entirety. I do appreciate the Russian culture, but there is no chance in hell I could live there today.
Furthermore, things you are so fond of in Russian literature and movies... they are not held in high respect in that country today. The society is largely cynical, cruel, aimless, rude. If you heard the way they talk in the streets you would lose your respect for that population. Coarse language is everywhere, something that did not exist before.
A couple of days ago an incident happened. Four young guys were behaving stupidly at one of the many Eternal Fires that exist there to commemorate the fallen soldiers. Usually it is a gas burner.
An older man apparently asked them to stop. They beat him bad, and then held over the fire, frying him alive.
So my longing is mixed with revolt.
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Yeah, kind of like the way Rio and Sao Paulo have gone: crimes so vicious as to almost defy human comprehension occur everyday and worse of all, the population accepts it and hardly raises a sigh, anymore.
I know it sounds like just another old fart reminiscing but... I remember many times when, after having too much to drink, I walked through the dicier parts of downtown-area Rio looking for after hours "entertainment." Now, I'd be terrified to walk around Ipanema late at night. Worst of all, it wouldn't necessarily be some big, tough motherfucker I'd have to worry about but rather some 90-lb., 7-yr. old glue head with a zip gun or a group of them with machetes.
Absolute worst criminals, however, are the after-hours police trying to make some extra money. They leave no witnesses.
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