Oddbean new post about login | logout portugal is crappy but madeira is kinda ok, there's no way they'd have an easy time pushing that shit here in springtime the valleys ring out with the sound of farmers shooting rabbits while their plants are small and tasty... most of the cops can't walk up these hills but all the farmers do this all day long
i swear the low iodine and selenium in the soil down there makes people so apathetic and fatalistic i couldn't stand being in this environment where the lowest were dragging everyone down and not hardly anyone was fighting back literally so few people i met in australia who actually had any spirit, i could count them on maybe 2 hands and several of them don't live there anymore
My grandfather's generation were nothing like us. Its not the soil, its the culture.
yeah, but the soil doesn't help, it does make people more relaxed and lower energy which means they are easier to herd around and dominate by the ruling class so you see culture of passivity is only partly acquired through social interaction, it's also partly based on a biochemical situation, and because people are so passive, when there's something that needs to be fought against, people impede and shrug their shoulders and "she'll be right mate"
I would suggest the modern culture of snitching is behind more of this than is apparent. And the social atomisation from frequent internal migration and urbanisation. Our WW2 generation were never described as passive and compliant. Especially not by the British and other europeans.