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  I assume you wilfully misunderstand my point Philip. I'm talking about a widespread attitude of mind that amounts to a national trait.
  
  In a country in decline, sarcasm and cynicism become a kind of disguised competitiveness - survival of the glummest, with anyone daring to be too forward-looking portrayed as somehow naive or risible in order to put them down.
  
  It's a pretty sick game and something I find very alien and frustrating. I hoped the Olympics' positive spirit had changed something.
  
  One or two pseudo-intellectual forumites into niggly one-upmanship will be chortling at this, in which case, QED.

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