@AzakaSekai_ Yeah, it also sucks that this year is also the best weather AX has possibly ever had. It’s usually too hot to stand outside more than 5 minutes before sweating, even in the morning.
Leaving before 12 is kind of insane though.
One thing I’ve tried (and mostly failed) to explain to American absolutists is that Europe carries historical debt the U.S. simply doesn’t. There’s a reason we put limits on certain speech and behavior.
You don’t - not because you’re “freer,” but because you lack the lived memory of where unrestrained mass movements actually end up. It’s easy to believe “it can’t happen here” when it never has (and may it never will, although - recent years are proving nobody, not even you, is immune).
Europe doesn’t theorize about Bolshevism and Nazism, because we tried it, lived it, endured its consequences and buried it.
Some lessons can’t be explained, unfortunately, they just need to be survived.