Erst jetzt gesehen: “Home”, Luc Bessons Dokumentation des kritischen Zustands der Erde, läuft seit 5. Juni auch in voller Länge auf YouTube. So schön ist die Erde, wenn man sie aus der Distanz betrachtet. Den Film zu schauen, ist ein bisschen wie meditieren.

In eigener Sache: Zusammen mit Wallis Tourismus organisiere ich eine kulinarische Schlemmerreise für die Medien. Hier gehts zum Programm. Anmeldung hier.

Der reiche Russe kommt und gibt ein Darlehen zu null Prozent Zins, was alle glücklich macht für einen Moment.

It is August. In a small town on the South Coast of France, holiday season is in full swing, but it is raining so there is not too much business happening. Everyone is heavily in debt. Luckily, a rich Russian tourist arrives in the foyer of the small local hotel. He asks for a room and puts a Euro100 note on the reception counter, takes a key and goes to inspect the room located up the stairs on the third floor. The hotel owner takes the banknote in hurry and rushes to his meat supplier to whom he owes EUR100. The butcher takes the money and races to his wholesale supplier to pay his debt. The wholesaler rushes to the farmer to pay E100 for pigs he purchased some time ago. The farmer triumphantly gives the EUR100 note to a local prostitute who gave him her services on credit. The prostitute goes quickly to the hotel, as she owed the hotel for her hourly room use to entertain clients, and lays the EUR100 on the counter. At that moment, the rich Russian is coming down to reception and informs the hotel owner that the proposed room is unsatisfactory and takes his EUR100 back and departs. There was no profit or income. But everyone no longer has any debt and the small town people look optimistically towards their future.