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  • German education doesn't actually tell you much about the Second World War and more about the Shoa and the implications of the ideology of National Socialism. Less about military strategy (like Operation Market Garden etc), more about gas chambers and death camps, deportation logistics, systematic dehumanisation. Exceptions are analysis of speeches.

  • There is this saying 'people are not islands' to mean people are interconnected with each other. The literal sense being applied by the last decade and by extension the last semicentennial is weird. The EU is a federation and any country can leave, but I still think Brexit was a mistake.

  • I consider these associations of QOL improvements with mythical characteristics attempts of narrative control, with which religious leaders could exert power over new developments. My assumption is that previously, organised religions were powerful and agile enough in their narrative that those new development could be held in control of the religion, but with the beginning of exponential and distributed knowledge production they were kinda outnumbered and became as weird as they are today. I have no motivation or sources to back this up, though.

  • British people (68,1 million people) are not 'loud, obnoxious, monolingual and dumb'.

    98% or 59,8 million people spoke English in 2011, 864 thousand people in England and Wales did not speak or not much English. Roughly 700 thousand people speak Welsh and 1.5 million people speak Scottish Gaelic and Ulster Scots. Other languages spoken in the UK include Irish Gaelic, Polish, Punjabi, Bengali, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu and Chinese.