RSSif only they would stockpile cigarettes and wine! If you don’t use those things you can surely use them as valuable trade items. The Swiss know how to govern. Their banks not so much…
It's more useful to stockpile cigarettes and hard liquor, like vodka, especially for barter purposes, and I don't need government to handle that for me.
... if only they would stockpile cigarettes and wine!
That weak horse is a young horse and has a much longer life ahead with any luck. It will depend on Mom surviving the winter and showing junior all the ropes. Does this work as a metaphor?
Being witness to the world is merciless. We all suffer our private sorrows. Even the elites lose their children, their health, their wealth. For now we have a beautiful setting for our lives. In the slums and war torn areas of the world the people also have their joys and triumphs. Life on earth has rules of some strange sort, things are balanced even in the inequities of circumstances. The Empire always falls eventually and the downtrodden become the masters eventually. Humans enjoy what and where they can and suffer the same pain. I am grateful to live here and now. I also know that paradise is fleeting and fragile and at any moment can change to hell.