“In this timeless country, time only has a meaning for most people when it’s time to pay bills and taxes. Everything else remains in the distant realm of the unpredictable. You don’t know if and when you’ll get the salary that will help you pay these bills. You don’t even know if you’ll still have a job next month….
“In this banana republic of austerity memoranda, even time is subject to deflation. Which is only logical, because our country’s bosses estimate the time it will take for a ‘return to normality’ at more than a decade. That is too long for the time we experience to have any meaning at all. Have you seen in some people’s eyes how they just want to put this year, this decade, this life, behind them, without ever writing anything meaningful or important in their appointment books?”
Source: euro|topics, January 19
Eric Koch’s new book, New Beginnings, was launched on September 20. The book is available from 
