Posted by alexandra_k on June 18, 2020, at 22:56:51
In reply to Re: unpopular view, posted by alexandra_k on June 18, 2020, at 22:52:43
It has been interesting to me, over the last year or so, to feel like I am following, in some sense. Understanding, in some sense, things that are going on, politically, around the world.
I remember previously feeling like foreign politics was a totally foreign language to me. I still feel like that about some issues... The stuff about the Russian Spy and... Impeachment... I wasn't following any of that...
But trying to understand what was going on in Hong Kong with the protests.. Trying to understand enough to make up my own mind what I thought about things...
ANd I have been feeling like I am able to follow along a bit with the politics thing.
Which is good, I think.
I was going to say it is about Covid sort of providing a theme or whatever to make politics more understandable.
Perhaps that is true. But it has also been the case that I have invested more time and effort into trying to understand and researching various things so I could understand more / better. Reading a variety of news sources etc.
So it is likely a bit of both.
I didn't know where HOng Kong was on the map of the world, previously. Taiwan. Beijing. Wuhan (maybe still not sure... 2hrs from HOng Kong on the train, they reckon...)
Yeah.
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