Why are facts so similar to what was expected? Why do politicians react so late when facing the evidence? Why is it they continue to believe that there is no problem that a lack of solution will not eventually solve? Why is it that they always try to solve problems known for years at the last minute?
This week while flying over the island shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, I thought about this reply of Bubbles, the pathetic drug dealer from the underbelly of Baltimore, discovering the affluent area of the same city, home of the ex-wife and the children of the police officer for whom is an informant in the fourth episode of the first season of one of my favorite American television series, The Wire…
The Socialist Party primary elections are an indication that this week, as well as the following weeks, in the French media and in the debates between political leaders, left and right, the discussion will be mainly about old disputes, new alliances, jobs for young people, de-globalization, generational contract, and other exciting issues…
The challenges ahead for France and the French people starting in 2012 are huge: a public debt equal to the GDP; 4 million unemployed people; €70 billion in external deficit, a vertiginous loss of competitiveness; an extraordinarily fast deindustrialization; uncertain energy and environmental choices; widening poverty; precariousness spreading to the middle class…
While the Socialists allowed themselves to be trapped in a strange primaries debate (where the candidates only questioned themselves on subjects that are not of presidential competency, but of parliamentary competency, without being asked anything neither on defense, Europe or foreign policy, any of the major social issues for which the president is accountable) preparing the moment when the right will say…
Men obviously do not like prisons; or anything that can limit their lives. They do not like boundaries or constraints imposed on them by the brevity of their lives, or those imposed on them by physics. So, all the human adventure is made of escape attempts: thus, man lives longer and longer, knows the entire globe, learned how to fly, and explores the universe.
