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cliffelam · 4457 days ago · link · · parent · post: Christian Caryl, “Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth fo the 21st Century”
Your point on Thatcher is spot on - it's impossible to pick a political figure from another culture and perfectly project them on your own. In the same way it's impossible to pick a single program, say the NHS, and transport it into your culture. Optical engineers know that distance reduces resolution. If only political engineers understood that too. -XC PS - I remember the day after RR's election the Iranians announcing that they'd return the hostages forthwith. Ahem.