Joanna writes:
> But take my word for it, [in the US] there is a level of anxiety, of unrelenting fear and mistrust, the likes of which I have not encountered anywhere else on earth.<
Michael Moore's BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE suggests that the reason for all the gun shootings in the US is not the prevalence of guns as much as the "unrelenting fear and mistrust" that we all suffer from. It makes sense: we're all told -- and we all believe -- that if we fail, it's our fault and no-one else's. Each "American" is every other one's rival in the Great Big Market, unless of course we're uniting around the Flag to beat up some other country. It feels like it's either individual rivalry or national unity, with nothing in-between.
BTW, L.A. is pretty bad (as Joanna says) but it has a lot of plays and movies and other culture if you can afford it.
Jim
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