donderdag 28 februari 2013

In Italy, Illusion Is the Only Reality

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Whether Silvio Berlusconi wins or loses, the country is determined to ignore uncomfortable truths.


IT takes a certain talent to live in happy denial, to slide toward the edge of a precipice and be perfectly relaxed about it. Of all the talents that Italians are renowned for, such nonchalance is perhaps their greatest. Their economy is in deep recession; more than one in three young adults are unemployed; they are unable to compete economically with their neighbors; yet they continue as if nothing were happening, or as if a small glitch in the dolce vita could be fixed with the wave of a wand.




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