{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "One thing about reading overseas news, you get a better sense of the baseline level of national solipsism, the extent to which a...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/169687213638/", "html": "<p>One thing about reading overseas news, you get a better sense of the baseline level of national solipsism, the extent to which a culture will try to impose its own internal narratives on the world.<br/></p><p>Like in Germany lately they\u2019re like \u201cHow come we don\u2019t seem to have soft power traction on anyone any more? No one wants to follow our leadership these days! <i>Is it because we did such a shit job building this Berlin airport?</i>\u201d<br/></p>"}