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I’ve been thinking about the difference between growing up in an authoritarian city state and now living in an increasingly authoritarian large country.

Friends from home ask ‘isn’t it bad when X happens?’ And I think of how:

For the most part, the distance between politics and real life feels very large here. That, unless I make a point to go online and read certain things, many things about politics take a long time to filter over into ‘real life’.

Whereas back home if someone made a speech or changed a policy, I would hear talk about it, feel it, discuss it, immediately. That’s also one of the differences in centralized states vs whatever this is.