EGYPT! Land of the free and Home of the brave.
A conversation you would not expect to be possible — but is!
Humans as individuals tend to assume that others have it better than they do.
The same goes for subjects of various countries. America is great of course, but around the world it's fairly common for people to think that Americans have it made.
They think that all Americans are wealthy, free, and full partners in the ruling power structure.
They also tend to think that in America anybody can speak their mind without consequence. What they fail to notice of course is that different societies have different verboten subjects. In the US you can call Trump a poopie-head or Biden an “old white man” (a worse insult, and one that Donald, being orange, is immune from), but the moment you actually kill someone who runs a hospital health panel, the leadership lose their fucking minds! 😂
Anyway, my own freedom and irreverence for the temporarily-reverent doesn't fully fit ANY society, as every single society on earth punishes those who dare to wonder about one or another blatantly nonsensical Pillar of Belief, but, overall, I have not found myself any more or less curtailed in any society I've been party to.
This tends to surprise my various international interlocutors, but I think they, and you, will find it a breath of fresh air.
Overall, individuals are good, life is good, people are reasonable, and we can actually all be friends rather than competitors.
That's the wisdom I bring you from a life quite broadly lived.
It's just the lifeless social systems and inherited paranoias that make people occasionally less than awesome.
Behold, an Egyptian conversation.¹
¹ Background in the video description on YouTube.
Allowing for the fact that systems are dead idols that make men do bad things on occasion, and also accounting for my friends' concerns I've removed the sound, and added a vocal explanation, for a few seconds of conversations within the first two minutes. Otherwise the conversation is uncut, from the moment someone thought to film it to the moment the battery went dead.
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Enjoy this unique conversation from Egypt. The kind of which has never happened before and isn't likely to happen again.
Have a beautiful day and enjoy the show!