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This spoke to my pirate's heart. Absolutely fantastic piece.

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As a Traditional Catholic mexican I think anglos are in the decline, but they did created many useful things. I can see both the drug trafficking of Queen Victoria as monstrous and still acknowledge that lightbulbs and electricity are quite useful. Overall anglos stunted their potential when becoming heretics, but hey, no nation is perfect.

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Neal Stephenson's nanotechnology novel *The Diamond Age* describes a high-tech society in which Neo-Victorian mores have prevailed.

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It's true. I am a very sad pirate indeed.

But i do have some rum. Yo-ho-ho!

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It's true. We are a special people.

You don't understand until you've been outside our culture.

Honour, pride, loyalty, goals-based thinking, self-improvement, curiosity:

These aren't base human conditions-they are the result of culture.

What we take for granted for being 'normal', isn't.

Normal worldwide is corrupt, lazy, self-indulgent, hedonistic and envious.

It's absolutely right that we have the wealth and power we have earned as a people.

It's not like anyone gave it to us.

I was brainwashed and demoralised, made to believe that we were a force for evil in the world.

But since seeing what the rest of the world is like, I've learned that we are a light shining in the darkness. A light that has illuminated the entire world. Yet a light that must be preserved and guarded against the envious and the low, whose vileness is revealed by it.

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In reality, the nagging kindergarten teacher from Interstellar much more closely resembles a different type of self-hating Anglo in today's climate -- the terminally online conspiracy theorist. These delusional hysterics pose at least as much of a threat to their own kind as do the smarmy, self-hating social activists. Unfortunately, almost the entire audience for posts and authors like this one comprise such people, so the ongoing demise and decay spoken of here is highly likely to continue, even if the problems discussed in this article are solved completely.

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I wonder if the author of this might be able to calm down slightly if they realised the role which chance plays in historical processes.

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How wonderfully delightful.

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