What can one say.

As Harry Lime, the character played by Orson Welles, wryly observes in the classic movie “The Third Man”:

“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce?

The cuckoo clock.”

For those interested here is a link to the full substack.

https://christrotter418256.substack.com/p/not-nice-people