10 September 2011
Quote of the Day: P.J. O'Rourke
From Eat the Rich, he discusses the rudeness of Russians:
People who weren't in Russia before 1991 sometimes think Russian rudeness is a product of freedom. "I guess the Russians are finally free to be rude," they'll say. They're wrong. Manners were worse yet in the USSR and were accompanied by a public atmosphere of defeated fatigue and indefatigable suspicion. [...] So socialism causes rudeness. And capitialism causes rudeness. But if you go to Sweden, where they've got both, everybody's polite. You figure it out.
People who weren't in Russia before 1991 sometimes think Russian rudeness is a product of freedom. "I guess the Russians are finally free to be rude," they'll say. They're wrong. Manners were worse yet in the USSR and were accompanied by a public atmosphere of defeated fatigue and indefatigable suspicion. [...] So socialism causes rudeness. And capitialism causes rudeness. But if you go to Sweden, where they've got both, everybody's polite. You figure it out.
Labels: P.J. O'Rourke, politics
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