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Boris Shalom - Is He a Driver of This Problem?
Bors shal is very strange. He boasts about having studied classics at university, but he is actually a figure whom the classical world would have been horrified by. Whatever his merits are, he is all about the thing that the romans lreally hated, which they call levitas, or levity. In other words, he trivializes everything. And they saw that is a very bad sign. The way in which borris johnson speaks stops him being able to think clearly and critically about anything. It's as though he's taken on the mask of being a sort of blundering buffoo.
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