2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Imagine that you love tea. And your friend is very fond of tea, but different, not the same as you like. He drinks pu-erh, and you are black and only sugar-free. Therefore, everyone who drinks black tea with sugar irritates you. And pu-erh seems disgusting to your taste. How can you drink this ?! Whether it is black tea: aroma, shades, strength, invigorating notes of taste … What a beauty! But no: here your friend comes to visit you, and again he has to brew this stupid pseudo-tea.
You know best of all that tea is only black and only without sugar, the rest is just a pitiful compromise for weaklings and liberals; real Russian men drink black tea, and not any liberal garbage, like pu-erh, latte, even if he asked for a frappuccino! Thu! And in general, why would I give up a friend who does not respect black tea ?! Who is he - our ancestors drank black tea for centuries! They fought and drank real black tea! They, one might say, laid down their lives so that everyone had the opportunity to drink black tea. And then, you know, they introduced a fashion for all sorts of nasty things, like pu-erh, oolong, cappuccino-frappuccino. This is all the pernicious influence of the West, the Europeans stupidly impose their pseudo-values on us, and you buy into this cheap propaganda of substitutes for our high-quality, strong, black tea. How not ours ?! How is it growing in China ?! This is all the machinations of enemies! Tea has always grown in Georgia, period! What does it mean “Georgia is no longer a part of our country” ?! So now we won't drink tea anymore ?! And I always said that first they would force us to drink some nasty tea instead of normal tea, and then they would introduce juvenile justice and start taking away our children! And generally speaking…
Stop, wait! Set your cup aside for a couple of minutes and reflect on what just happened to you. Instead of discussing common interests and topics with a friend over a cup of tea, you decided to start a quarrel just because you like one kind of tea and he likes another.
Political parties and public figures (with rare exceptions like Stalin, Hitler, KKK leaders and neo-Nazis) are akin to teas. Someone likes some, some others. Someone actively supports a certain political platform, while others are simply interested in the political situation in general.
And someone (and I am sure that you have more than half of such friends and acquaintances) is not interested in politics at all. To impose a certain taste of tea on them is wrong and even rude. Likewise, it is incorrect to impose political views, likes and dislikes on them, even if you yourself are acutely aware of this or that political force or program.
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