Disappointments

My friend M. tells the story of a woman in the Whitechapel Gallery last weekend. The lady steps inside the building to see an exhibition but finds, instead, an "exhibition of the exhibition", which comprises only 1 piece of art. The woman leaves then the place upset, ranting on disappointingly. It took me some time to realize but, despite the age of the good woman, I could share her loathe. London is made of such a bluff.
The most interesting thing to me in Whitechapel can be found just a few yards across the Gallery: a Mosque with a placard clearly noticeable above a door: "women, use that other entrance". Some would describe the action of buying a drink to a woman in a bar as sexually coercive; how would they describe that placard above that door?

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M. did not like my comments on Malcolm Grant few days ago. More painfully, E. did not appreciate my opinion that Greece should be forced to leave the EU and, foremost, not at all, my comparison with the Spanish case. I should have rephrased such comparison in a better context... Please, feel free to write here as much (nasty) as you wish. You will be the first ones. Help me boil up!

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There is no as much tragedy in reducing the minimum salary as in cutting the pensions down to amounts of the sort of 1400 euros. The young is strong -or should be, and industrious and courageous- and can take it, but who will defend the old? Who will defend the old from such a scam?
The story runs like this: when you are young, your country is in a new perspective and you are a "third-way" social democrat. Nothing wrong with that; on the contrary: you believe in a responsible public education, in a good, public sanitary system; you stick to family values, and parental moral authority; you believe in honesty, the power of the law, the same for old, and the swiftness of a virtuous justice. Your beliefs lead you to become a hard-working person, to make sacrifices; you don't care much about becoming rich, but to enjoy life in the good, honest way -who doesn't!-, in being friend of your friends, in get your off-spring ahead, in tasting your summer holidays. However, years passed by, the circumstances have changed, and such conceptions become old... And you get old, and you won't get the pension that so dearly you deserve. The pension others got because of you and your beliefs
Ok, I know that is not necessarily the end of the world, but it is a drama, a real and common one that fascinates me. It is triggered by a sort of scam... . But there is no one to complaint... A grimace of evolution, that's all.
Nevertheless, the politicians of today secure the money in their hands... With a good cause... Of course. They look so handsome and smart, they must be right... People made mistakes in the past, and but they are smarter now... . Of course.

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