look i'm not arguing that CHILDREN OF MEN depicts a really deeply fucked britain where things are very bad i am saying that the text just says that britain is nevertheless the last bastion of order in an even more awful world
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Like the Brits, or at least the English, meant it when they said they really couldn't imagine being invaded, conquered and enslaved An actual ground war was something alien RI they cultural experience The trauma of the Blitz, as searing as it was, was explicitly not that
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Which he said in his view was why Brits were kind of stuck up in an oblivious way even compared to very wealthy Americans but didn't have the capacity for raw brutal hatred he saw in US culture of the time
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Yep. He had our number. That essay and many of his others have lived in my head since I was 15. “Being an island nation” is also where the ideas of survival as a lifeboat come from — well, specifically “being relatively safe from but constantly afraid of invasion for centuries”.
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