This is madness! This. Is. SPARTA!!!!

Following the latest economic news on Europe sometimes makes you feel like you are entering some sort of a parody of how societies and economic systems are supposed to work. When you follow the news on a regular basis, you constantly have the felling that the end of the world is near. Whether it's revolts and civil wars or terrorist attacks or economic crises or just good old mother nature, there's always something to keep you on the edge of your seat. And if everything is fine and dandy for you or your neighbors, then there are over 100 other countries where things can be shitty and what with globalization and our financial system there's always a way in which that can screw you over.

It sometimes makes me wonder whether we as humans should have the right to lead something as fragile, as complex and as big as a country. They say that everyone can make mistakes and as humans it is natural that we make mistakes. However, when your mistake involves millions of other people in the street, then we should question whether that natural characteristic has the right to exist within political or economic systems. We should question whether any changes in policies or structures should ever be made. In physics, they make over 16,000 runs of the same experiment before they even begin to question the validity of their theories. In that perspective, who the hell ever thought that the Eurozone would be a good idea? Probably the same schmuck who thought sub-prime mortgages would work out alright.

Alright, I might complain a lot, but the truth is that while we might feel like grand men who are setting the foundations for better societies, in the end, we are just children building sand castles on the beach and any minute now the wave is going to come and wipe away a decade's worth of efforts. And how can we even phantom to talk about global economies when more than half of the people on this Earth don't understand the slightest thing about their neighbors and much less about someone living at the other end of the globe. We have many dreams about how this world could be, but we fail to see the full implications of our plans. And how can we? It would be like trying to predict the weather that we would be experiencing 10 years from now.

It is in moments such as these that we wish we had someone who knew what he was doing. An actual adult. But the only thing that ever came close to an adult-figure was God. And God is either dead or he doesn't understand shit about the economy. Then again, neither do we...