The Russians Are Coming
Dec. 4th, 2007 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloI grew up during the Cold War. I remember playing a game called "Russian spies" which involved talking in a silly voice and brandishing crayoned drawings of space rockets. My friend and I never could figure out what Russian spies actually did. It was fun drawing the space rockets but the rest of it palled very quickly.
So I've got this conditioning. Russia is the "Evil Empire"- all that Reaganite crap.
But
When I was a little older I discovered the Russians had written the best books in the world. Later I found out they'd also made some of the best films.
AND they defeated Hitler. Yes they did. We helped out at bit, but they were the ones who fought the biggest battles and took the biggest losses.
So LJ is now owned by the Russians.
Yes I know the President of Russia is a scary bloke. (So is the President of the USA if you hadn't noticed.)
But he's less likely to want to kill us- right- now we're his customers.
We live in a global economy. And in a global economy this is what happens. Russians also own Chelsea football club and much of London.
The shop's new owner has a funny accent. Get over it.
A capitalist is a capitalist is a capitalist. Are you trying to tell me Russian capitalists are intrinsically more evil than American capitalists? (Or British capitalists, or Australian capitalists). That's silly. Go read some history.
So I've got this conditioning. Russia is the "Evil Empire"- all that Reaganite crap.
But
When I was a little older I discovered the Russians had written the best books in the world. Later I found out they'd also made some of the best films.
AND they defeated Hitler. Yes they did. We helped out at bit, but they were the ones who fought the biggest battles and took the biggest losses.
So LJ is now owned by the Russians.
Yes I know the President of Russia is a scary bloke. (So is the President of the USA if you hadn't noticed.)
But he's less likely to want to kill us- right- now we're his customers.
We live in a global economy. And in a global economy this is what happens. Russians also own Chelsea football club and much of London.
The shop's new owner has a funny accent. Get over it.
A capitalist is a capitalist is a capitalist. Are you trying to tell me Russian capitalists are intrinsically more evil than American capitalists? (Or British capitalists, or Australian capitalists). That's silly. Go read some history.
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I started an alternate journal way back when...
Date: 2007-12-04 01:33 pm (UTC)My other journal is here:
http://www.greatestjournal.com/
I was unable to get many of my LJ friends to join me there so I've been doing both for a while now.
If someone would point out a way to transfer all my stuff in bulk over there I'd be gone already. It works about the same and offers more stuff for free. I have no complaints with their service at all. It's just lonely over there without the rest of you guys. ;)