Yeah its been an affront on all sides. Privacy and freedom of expression is dying, unfortunately the majority of the population will only realise the levels of authoritarianism too late.

As stated its conformation bias. I am currently in India now and there is granted a much greater disparity between rich and poor and both the things you stated above, there will be things that shock. That said it is a fantastic, massively diverse and rapidly emerging country, well worth discovering. Also it is very devolved state wise culturally, linguisticly etc. You experience will very depending on which state your in

The UK has entered the conversation, we will not be unseated in Europe. But yeah as hard as we try we pail in comparison to you guys, hopefully your inevitable implosion will serve as a warning to the rest of us aspiring authoritarianists… Probably not.

Wow, that’s really interesting, I would never assume ships had a sound

What is you job?