Someone once told me that fear of heights is not really the fear of falling but the fear that the irrational urge to throw yourself over the edge will become irresistible. True in my experience
The Union’s unsung success has been the containment of English nationalism. Break it and you summon precisely that, and nobody signing declarations in Cardiff has given a thought about what that vengeful pure nationalistic England actually looks like.
I think one of the saddest things about modern childhood is the loss of cartoons as inheritance. I grew up watching Scooby-Doo reruns decades after it first aired. Kids today have more content than ever, but perhaps less shared cultural inheritance across generations.