Japanese trains are so civil they are reduced to warning people that the music from their headphones might be too loud. And don’t bump people with your rucksack. Oh to have their problems!
I've also noticed a lot of older people conducting calls on loudspeaker on public transport etc. I was recently having lunch at a quiet restaurant in Covent Garden for a friend's birthday. An Australian couple, probably in their 60s, were on a video call with their daughter at the table next to us. When we asked them to turn it down, they did so, but the man started loudly complaining about how rude we were and was noticeably agitated and angry.
Not sure if it's just a general phone addiction phenomenon - see also people refusing to turn their phones off in theatres "because I'm expecting an important message!".
Accidentally, Stolypin has been touted as a paragon of “Russian modernization” under Putin, although I doubt that the Kremlin had any real understanding of Stolypin’s work. It was just part of an effort to come up with some sort of ideological justification for the regime, which resulted in a weird and amorphous hybrid of disparate ideas.
Madeleine Grant's article in the Telegraph makes me so pleased that I rarely have to use public transport, where you are captive for long periods of time to every sociopath around. Even people (men generally) driving by with their music blaring annoys me and that lasts only a few seconds. But as Madeleine pointed out, this is often a show of dominance, or almost as bad, an indication that this individual can't imagine that not everyone likes gangster rap. Yet I have some sympathy with this. As a teenager I just couldn't imagine how anyone could NOT like Elvis Costello. And truth be told, I still can't.
Stolypin possessed greatness. But his policy of transferring public land to private ownership was bitterly divisive.
Split the peasantry down the middle, and you have a grievance waiting to be exploited - as the Communists skilfully did when they collectivised agriculture.
The Stolypin policy was also social darwinism - however desperate the situation in Tsarist Russia, it was never going to achieve peace and progress by throwing the Weak to the Wolves, which was what the policy effectively did.
Free enterprise must always be balanced by solidarity and compassion.
I took a college class on Wagner. We listened to many parts of the operas ... that is, "music dramas" ... on vinyl records, and the professor, an old German man, conducted an imaginary cast and orchestra as the music played. In those days ... 1986-ish ... we could just study the music without constant emphasis on how horrible the ideology was.
Surely the root of the problem is that music infests our society. What once was something rare and beautiful is now not even commonplace it is constant . Why do I need to hear christmas carols when shopping? Or hear loud music from the 2000s in a working class pub in West London?
Japanese trains are so civil they are reduced to warning people that the music from their headphones might be too loud. And don’t bump people with your rucksack. Oh to have their problems!
I've also noticed a lot of older people conducting calls on loudspeaker on public transport etc. I was recently having lunch at a quiet restaurant in Covent Garden for a friend's birthday. An Australian couple, probably in their 60s, were on a video call with their daughter at the table next to us. When we asked them to turn it down, they did so, but the man started loudly complaining about how rude we were and was noticeably agitated and angry.
Not sure if it's just a general phone addiction phenomenon - see also people refusing to turn their phones off in theatres "because I'm expecting an important message!".
Accidentally, Stolypin has been touted as a paragon of “Russian modernization” under Putin, although I doubt that the Kremlin had any real understanding of Stolypin’s work. It was just part of an effort to come up with some sort of ideological justification for the regime, which resulted in a weird and amorphous hybrid of disparate ideas.
Madeleine Grant's article in the Telegraph makes me so pleased that I rarely have to use public transport, where you are captive for long periods of time to every sociopath around. Even people (men generally) driving by with their music blaring annoys me and that lasts only a few seconds. But as Madeleine pointed out, this is often a show of dominance, or almost as bad, an indication that this individual can't imagine that not everyone likes gangster rap. Yet I have some sympathy with this. As a teenager I just couldn't imagine how anyone could NOT like Elvis Costello. And truth be told, I still can't.
If you do manage to acquire that Templar castle, I trust that loyal subscribers are at least afforded the ancient rights of hospitality.
Stolypin possessed greatness. But his policy of transferring public land to private ownership was bitterly divisive.
Split the peasantry down the middle, and you have a grievance waiting to be exploited - as the Communists skilfully did when they collectivised agriculture.
The Stolypin policy was also social darwinism - however desperate the situation in Tsarist Russia, it was never going to achieve peace and progress by throwing the Weak to the Wolves, which was what the policy effectively did.
Free enterprise must always be balanced by solidarity and compassion.
I took a college class on Wagner. We listened to many parts of the operas ... that is, "music dramas" ... on vinyl records, and the professor, an old German man, conducted an imaginary cast and orchestra as the music played. In those days ... 1986-ish ... we could just study the music without constant emphasis on how horrible the ideology was.
The whole Citizens’ Assembly rubbish has been tried in Ireland. It’s merely a way for politicians to avoid responsibility.
Surely the root of the problem is that music infests our society. What once was something rare and beautiful is now not even commonplace it is constant . Why do I need to hear christmas carols when shopping? Or hear loud music from the 2000s in a working class pub in West London?