OMG that is about the best phrase, and now I'm thinking, what's better: an op-ed piece using that, or a short story using it. Whichever, amaebi, it's genius, and you should use it more widely than in the comment to one journal entry!
Plus, I totally agree with you.
Plus, I was thinking about how hard it is to argue for a postal system--something I strongly believe in as a civic responsibility--when any observer can look at how we're treating our own (and also at the fact that it's not without cost to run). Especially, though, when you're trying to assert that a place is one country, and to get a sense of national unity over disparate communities speaking different languages, I'd think it would be a key thing. But perhaps on the ground in Timor-Leste people feel that they're drawn together more through Internet communications. And, too, to have a postal system requires development and upkeep of the infrastructure for delivering the mail, which is also an issue there. I'm about to find out why it is that a journey of 70 miles takes 6 hours, for instance...
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Plus, I totally agree with you.
Plus, I was thinking about how hard it is to argue for a postal system--something I strongly believe in as a civic responsibility--when any observer can look at how we're treating our own (and also at the fact that it's not without cost to run). Especially, though, when you're trying to assert that a place is one country, and to get a sense of national unity over disparate communities speaking different languages, I'd think it would be a key thing. But perhaps on the ground in Timor-Leste people feel that they're drawn together more through Internet communications. And, too, to have a postal system requires development and upkeep of the infrastructure for delivering the mail, which is also an issue there. I'm about to find out why it is that a journey of 70 miles takes 6 hours, for instance...