Re: Of Pessimism, Optimism, and Reality

Nonsense. Travel overseas and you can hang out with kids all day. It's the damned english-speaking countries where things are nutty.

The real Great Britain, also called the commonwealth (which is something like 17 countries including Canada and Australia) where the queen of england has governor generals representing her.

While the queen of england makes it look like she has little or no power over these countries, technically she still has great power - she just chooses not to use it.

It's better to think that whenever you walk into these supposedly "free countries", you're actually walking into parts of Great Britain. Things will make sense from that perspective.