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+'We are shocked, shocked ... !'
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+:date: 2012-01-30T09:35:04
+:category: faith
+:tags: culture
+
+I was listening to my regular dose of `This American Life`_, this time
+about `the possible breakup of the European continent`_. It made me to
+remember on the early 2000s, and what we were thinking then. I
+remembered all those news stories about Italian government “suddenly”
+getting its debt under control, which nobody believed (`La Piovra`_
+anybody?). What were we thinking? And I remember well, what I was
+thinking. That European (mainly German) economy is strong enough to
+carry one crazy Greece to get among truly developed countries, and
+perhaps if we get couple of years to Italians they will get into shape
+as well. Thinking about it from this point of view, it was very expected
+that all those southern countries would be very much in debt currently,
+because all those debts should cover investments (yes, of course, some
+of them silly, like an international airport in La Mancha) which would
+need some time to bring money back. But then 2008 crisis happened, and
+all I could think was the Captain Louis Renault from Casablanca: “\ `I
+am shocked, shocked, to find out that the gambling is going on in
+here!`_\ ” And no, I don’t think I am shocked by this hypocrisy. When
+one gets into gambling in the Nazi occupied country, or into this amount
+of debt (and yes, swindling books) he gets knowingly into danger that
+somebody gets shocked and let him down to save his own neck. But it
+certainly makes me less shocked now.
+
+.. _`This American Life`:
+    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
+.. _`the possible breakup of the European continent`:
+    http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/455/continental-breakup
+.. _`La Piovra`:
+    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_piovra
+.. _`I am shocked, shocked, to find out that the gambling is going on in here!`:
+    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5E3CSizTNQ