Questions and Meditations

In one country, then another, then several others and then all the countries, comes the relief. For each state or each nation a governing team constitutes co-opting big entrepreneurs, scientists, agriculturists, doctors, philosophers, researchers, artists, administrators and officers (the armies converting into civil services), forgetting parties and ideologies and jointly taking responsibility for a common vision and a common mission = to help establish a new equilibrium that will be durable and capable of harmonious progress.

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The indebted farmer, the dismissed worker, the ruined shopkeeper, the overworked teacher, the expelled unemployed and the repelled immigrant – a huge dark wall suddenly hides the sun. To commit suicide? To dive into oblivion?

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