The biggest thing wrong with Switzerland is that there is nothing wrong with it. Ok it’s expensive but hey, it’s only money, at least it’s not pretentious. Take the students for example, rebellious drunken louts right? No, they have a beautiful campus that like the rest of Switzerland is pristinely clean and well versed in almost all subjects. When things get to the swiss do they take up arms? (remember that by law EVERY Swiss man has an assault-rifle at home and they have to pass a yearly shooting test) no, they just go skiing for the weekend, or hiking, or have a cheese fondue. Ok you think, politics, someone has lots of power and makes trouble for people, right? Wrong again, they have 7 presidents who are voted in and then oversee the government, reaching decisions by consensus... The Swiss may not be great decision makers but they have a quality life, rich with history and low in hate.
I was sitting at the Cabaret Voltaire, the art hangout of avent-grad and dadist painters of the day (from here started that slippery slope that led to all that post-modernistic abstractive-expressionistic nonsense that we all hate, blame these bastards [not that I don’t like Dali, Picasso and the rest of them]). So I sit sipping my beer and gorging myself on the free cheese. So many types of cheese, hard soft white goat, you name it they had 5 of each. Listening to the student band do quite a good jazz number, and discussing such politics with a few well spoken swiss (speaking not just swiss-german, German & English and most of them spoke French as well)
Of course i did not waste all my time sipping wine and eating cheese, looking at Chagall windows. The Mt. Titlis Ski resort was very enjoyable, even if I was a little sore afterwards. Biggest titlis i ever did see, at a whopping 3229m more than 2km vertical is skilifted. Nice!
The biggest thing wrong with Switzerland is that there is nothing wrong with it. Ok it’s expensive but hey, it’s only money, at least it’s not pretentious. Take the students for example, rebellious drunken louts right? No, they have a beautiful campus that like the rest of Switzerland is pristinely clean and well versed in almost all subjects. When things get to the swiss do they take up arms? (remember that by law EVERY Swiss man has an assault-rifle at home and they have to pass a yearly shooting test) no, they just go skiing for the weekend, or hiking, or have a cheese fondue. Ok you think, politics, someone has lots of power and makes trouble for people, right? Wrong again, they have 7 presidents who are voted in and then oversee the government, reaching decisions by consensus... The Swiss may not be great decision makers but they have a quality life, rich with history and low in hate.
I was sitting at the Cabaret Voltaire, the art hangout of avent-grad and dadist painters of the day (from here started that slippery slope that led to all that post-modernistic abstractive-expressionistic nonsense that we all hate, blame these bastards [not that I don’t like Dali, Picasso and the rest of them]). So I sit sipping my beer and gorging myself on the free cheese. So many types of cheese, hard soft white goat, you name it they had 5 of each. Listening to the student band do quite a good jazz number, and discussing such politics with a few well spoken swiss (speaking not just swiss-german, German & English and most of them spoke French as well)
Of course i did not waste all my time sipping wine and eating cheese, looking at Chagall windows. The Mt. Titlis Ski resort was very enjoyable, even if I was a little sore afterwards. Biggest titlis i ever did see, at a whopping 3229m more than 2km vertical is skilifted. Nice!
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