Embraces

THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CRISIS . G20

The location is unimportant.
The setting is always the same.
It includes an academic building,with the appropriate auditoria,
seminar rooms,and refectories ; book displays ; a message centre ;
the indispensable paraphernalia of recording and mimeographing,
keeping a secretarial staff properly occupied and very well paid.

THE PARTICIPANTS,in all the era,ARE MORE OR LESS THE SAME.

Upon arrival,and leaving,there is much SHOULDER-CLAPPING
and EMBRACES.

There is much discussion,ESPECIALLY AT THE BAR,
of matters unrelated to the present meeting.

Important people are there,doing un-important things.

The important people come from 20 different countries,
yet they seem very much alike.

They are conservatively dressed,in business suits,
less polite,less cautious,less interested in collecting
the appropriate documents,and prone to appearing
in more sophisticated and full of sorrow faces,
- sorrow for us,they had,in advance,decided our destiny -.

How do they speak apout the crisis in such a setting ?
Well,practice helps.In any case,important people are
been in the habit of speaking about poverty and crisis.
And it certainly helps that the people in crisis
are not in visible evidence.

The underlying population are topics of discussion,
NOT PARTICIPANTS IN IT.

One can probably tell a lot about these important people
by the way they treat those who clean their bathrooms
or serve them,and according of that,what kind of decisions
they take for our crisis.