It’s quite incredible how pragmatic and thoughtful the Dutch are about so many aspects of life that other cultures botch so thoroughly. No one’s perfect, but in a lot of domains the Dutch make a damn solid run at it by recognizing just that and coming up with thoughtful solutions to our very lack of perfection, from our weakness for intoxicants to the mental decline of old age. Ironically getting them closer to the ideal than most of the rest of us.
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