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Verfasser: James
Datum: Mittwoch, den 30. Januar 2002, um 6:19 Uhr
Betrifft: Die Tür zuknallen

Herrlicher Artikel in der Salt Lake Tribune vom Sonntag (27.1.2002). Ein Meisterwerk der britischen Ironie und Wortspiels (wer es mag, Herv.v.m., übrigens, man bemerke die irre Antwort einer Mormonin, siehe unten, auf die Tatsache, daß in Utah die meißten Medikamente gegen Depressionen in den USA verschreiben werden: "Wir sind sehr vertrauensselige Leute ... Ärzte verschreiben Antidepressiva in einem lächerlichen Maß und Frauen in Utah sind so vertrauensselig und abhängig in dem, was Ärzte ihnen sagen. Eigentlich haben wir weniger Depression hier, weil wir eine glücklichere Gesellschaft haben." Gehirntod allererster Güte, Happy Valley Utah ... es ist natürlich folgerichtig, daß Utah Frauen (70% Mormonen) "vertrauensseliger" und "abhängig" gegenüber bzw. von ihren "Ärzten" sind ... sie haben viel Übung und ihre Gewohnheiten in Abhängigkeit und Vertrauensseligkeit):

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"British Visitor to Utah Finds ’Strangest’ State
BY MATTHEW ENGEL
THE GUARDIAN

Editor’s Note: The Winter Olympics is thrusting Utah into the global spotlight. Here is how The Guardian, a respected British national broadsheet newspaper based in London, described the state last Monday under the headline "God’s Games."

It might be the dry desert air, or it could be the psychological effects of arriving in the place reputed to be the most prohibitionist in the United States, but there is something about Salt Lake City that makes a chap desperate for a drink. ...     Welcome to the capital of Utah, the strangest of the 50 states.

An Olympics can do wonders (Barcelona, Sydney) or incalculable damage (Montreal, Atlanta) to any city’s worldwide reputation. These Games are riskier than most, because the security issues are more vexatious than ever. Also, the bribes to IOC members that traditionally massage the award of the Games to a city became public this time, and the scandal has already seared Utah and the Olympic movement. One more false move and this place’s name will be Mud,- not Salt.

Theocracy in Action: ... Utah is the nearest the western world gets to a functioning theocracy.

The next month is thus a crucial time for the entire religion. ... The volunteers who will greet and assist visitors to the Games have been instructed not to try to convert them. ... But the overwhelming majority of the volunteers will be Mormon ... If people ask about the faith, they may find it hard to contain themselves, though. Conversion is their business.
...

They also, famously, convert the dead, who are less resistant. ... This is not a religion that offers its members much opportunity for theological debate. It is uthoritarian, hierarchical, gerontocratic (Gordon Hinckley, the current president and prophet, is 92) and male-dominated.

... while the Mormons’ global power has grown, they have actually lost control of their own capital, and now have less than half of its population.

Skip the Tea: You can get anything you want in Salt Lake City ... You can’t find a decent cup of tea, but that’s true everywhere in the United States.
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Timely Revelation: "Polyamorous respect" was, of course, once at the heart of Mormonism. Persecuted in the eastern (and central) United States, where Smith was murdered, the pioneers journeyed here bravely under his successor, Brigham Young, in a trek that had overtones of the Afrikaners’ journey across the veld (in South Africa). The Afrikaners never had polygamy, though, which made the Mormons notorious until, in 1890, the practice was barred after the church’s leader had a timely revelation that otherwise Utah had no chance of attaining statehood.
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Escape Valves: Peace and contentment? Utah leads the United States and probably the world in use of antidepressants. "In any dominant culture, particularly a religious one," Saltas theorizes, "there’s a whole bunch of striving for an ideal that’s often unobtainable, whether it’s a spiritual one or to do with lifestyle. The body needs an escape valve. Something is depressing these people or driving them crazy; I don’t know what."

Ruzicka doesn’t see it that way at all. "We’re very trusting people," she insists. "Doctors prescribe antidepressants to a ridiculous extent and women in Utah are so trusting and dependent on what the doctor says. We actually have less depression here because we’re a happier society."
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Salt Lake has a stunningly beautiful setting, which has not yet been irrevocably ruined by development. It has been voted the most livable city in the United States by Places Rated Almanac (which presumably did not visit on the 31 days last year when smog meant that the vulnerable were advised to stay indoors).
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Awesome Buildings: It still has distinctive, locally owned businesses, meaning that not everything has been chain-store cloned and homogenized. At the center of it all is the Mormon achievement: the temple and surrounding buildings, built in styles ranging from German schloss to Stalinist brutalism to Savoy hotel luxuriance. Next to the temple there is a new conference center that seats 21,000. It is jaw-droppingly awesome.

The Mormons do not stint (limit) themselves. For efficiency, the church has been compared to the Prussian army.
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These will be the Mormon Games. And as with Barcelona and Sydney, the setting will linger in the collective memory long after we have all forgotten who won the ice dancing. If it all goes well, it will be Utah’s triumph. That means a Mormon triumph. And that means next time a well-scrubbed young man with a rictus smile comes to your door and asks, very politely, if you might be interested in a chat about religion, it will be just a little bit harder to slam the door in his face."

Quelle:

http://www.sltrib.com/01272002/nation_w/171035.htm

Cheers, James

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