Commentary
Decades ago, I backpacked to exotic places where things were very different. For instance the electricity might work intermittently, and accountability not at all. But now that globalization has created a far more homogeneous world, culturally and technologically, um, they don’t work here either.
Last winter I complained on Twitter, so I deserved whatever I got, about public authorities charging me hundreds of dollars to deliver what they agreed was no electricity at all to my shut-down cottage. A barbarous noise promptly environed me, bawling that people as rich as me should be ripped off, a nastily envious take on the Canadian dream, including good government….