The second capital of dread and fear, which I was afraid to visit after Moscow, is Washington, and if I did not visit it, it would not cause me anything to regret it. The world can change the pace of its day, and the details of its rhythm. American politics is in its place in cold basements, thick glass offices, and those ribbed concrete buildings. It is strange for a while, so that citizenship can be granted to him, and it is linked to it as a daily habit, and familiarity with the place, which may be changed by circumstances and material gains, where the prevailing question among Americans, is not are you an American, but are you from any state or in which city were you born? He does not care about knowing what is going on in the world, nor in America, but rather his city, and if the Argentine football magician “Messi” visited America, no one would recognize him, not because of their hatred of “sugar” football, and their preference for American football “football”. Rather, it is the nature of the American who only cares about what he means, and I remember that a policeman was in charge of the stadium in which Argentina played the World Cup matches in America, and on that day the other Argentine magician, “Maradona,” was asked about him, and they tried to bring him the matter and simplify it. The policeman said: He might be the best player in the world, but I don’t know him, and I’d prefer to know all the crowd’s movements in my stadium.
There are great differences between the two capitals: the great Moscow, and the humble Washington at all levels, starting with historical and tourist attractions, museums and streets full of culture and social manifestations, and ending with the might of the capitals whose prestige has accumulated throughout the ages. Moscow has always been a polarized city as a center for all creators in the arts, literature and politics. The economy, while Washington is one of the cities of the center, and it is a city that repels only the distinguished in politics and the media. As for the rest of the knowledge and sciences, it is distributed by the many center cities in America. It is a recent establishment founded in 1790 on federal land that does not belong to any of the states, while “Maskfa” Or Moscow, founded in 1147 AD, this federal land donated by the states of “Virginia” and “Maryland” on the “Potmac” River, and merged with the capital, George Washington in 1871, to become its name “Washington, D. C, which came from the name of US President “George Washington”, and “DC” to distinguish it from Washington state on the northwest coast, of which the largest city is “Seattle”, and the term, “District of Columbia”, means the locality or district of Columbia, Its reference is from the name of America’s discoverer “Columbus”. As for the name of America, it is attributed to the Italian discoverer “Americo Fosubucci.” After its civil war, America took many capitals in its various cities, as a result of the dispute between the north and the south until they settled on building a new, neutral capital at the hands of the French engineer “Pierre Charles” Lanvin, Washington is a city without smell, and you will not find it extending its hand to you, it treats people according to their current official size, and if the same person comes as a visitor, not burdened with a job, you will put him in the category of passers-by, and you may not pay attention to him.
Has the fear dissipated and the dread gone away after visiting Moscow and Washington? Or do these two capitals still constitute for the young and those who are not familiar with them something of a mysterious awe?
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