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Then again, we might not be - and premature optimists have been punished several times already during this downturn. So the people who make a living calling the twists and turns of the economy have become almost comically cautious about declaring an inflection point. Some examples:
The same zeitgeist made gambling ubiquitous: until the late '80s, only Nevada and New Jersey had casinos, but now 12 states do, and 48 have some form of legalized betting. It's as if we decided that Mardi Gras and Christmas are so much fun, we ought to make them...
• Admit that we are powerless over addiction to easy money and cheap fossil fuel and living large - that our lives had become unmanageable.
• Believe that we can, individually and collectively, restore ourselves to sanity and normal living.
Others disagree. "In effect, the E.U. has taken away its previous conditions of democracy and human rights," says Valery Karbalevich, a Belarusian political analyst. "They still talk about them, but they don't mean it." And Lukashenka seems less than committed to living up to the initiative's "shared values...