This has been evident many times in English history from Scott of the Antarctic to WWII. The ability to carry on blithely is an advantage. Insouciance is a form of power. But if you don’t start building planes when the Germans are rearming...you’re in trouble.
The English are as obsessed with propriety as their Victorian forebears. If someone takes a shit in the middle of a garden party, the English carry on as if nothing happened. Reality denial is a strength...until it becomes delusion. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3l_3-23zAWM …
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