I’m still reviewing the year that was. The great appraisal is not over yet. Oh no. Not by a LONG shot. I’m only getting started. And I don’t care how many readers I lose on account of it. I’m sticking with this no matter what. The year is not going to review itself you know. Somebody around here has got to do it. And if it’s worth doing at all, then it’s worth doing properly. The way things are going, I’d say this Review of the Year could well run into next year.
Anyway. Amsterdam. City of the Year. Van Gogh. Bikes. Prostitutes. Rembrandt. Canals. Vermeer. The Enlightenement. Polders and Dykes. Spinoza. Abortion on demand. Tulip bubbles. A refuge for Descartes. Heineken. The Dutch. The tallest people in the world on average. Those crazy Dutch. How do they do it. Windmills. Euthanasia. Trams. Sex shows (apparently about as erotic as watching two elderly elephants humping each other. Possibly even less erotic). Protestantism. Cannabis (although instead of smoking this, you could always try spinning around in one spot for two minutes, in manner of 8 year old child. The high! The giddiness! The nausea! And it’s all completely free! And it’s legal even outside the Netherlands!).
Apparently the Dutch are so well-behaved that they are closing down prisons. They can’t find any criminals to put in them. In order to save jobs in their prisons, they are thinking of importing criminals from other countries. That’s what happens if you make everything legal: everyone behaves themselves and people who work in prisons find themselves out of a job. I always knew this great liberal, tolerant experiment thing would end in tears. The Netherlands is the evidence for that.
love this one
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