(November 20, 2012 at 9:05 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: And I thought the british self-loathing (if I understand the meaning of the term correctly) was a clichè.
I'd call it self-deprecation rather than self-loathing. Most of us don't actually loathe ourselves. Of course, there's always self-lathing but that's relatively rare nowadays, and self-loaving is unheard of outside of the baking industry.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
