DIDN”T REALLY EXPECT ANYTHING IN RUSSIA TO WORK, DID YOU? (rant) You have to be

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/02/04/journalists-at-sochi-are-live-tweeting-their-hilarious-and-gross-hotel-experiences/YOU DIDN”T REALLY EXPECT ANYTHING IN RUSSIA TO WORK, DID YOU?

(rant)

You have to be kidding. It isn’t in the Russian character to be honest with you about the quality of accommodations. Actually, it’s non in character to be honest with you about… well, anything much at all. Unless you are a close friend or relative you’re basically prey.

Of COURSE the hotels are incomplete and nothing works. Of course everything will be inedible, undrinkable, working intermittently and done with the least care and effort possible? What did you THINK?

The good of the commons? Are you kidding? Have you seen the commons anywhere other than the protestant west?

Stupid humans… sigh.

I’ll be very surprised if there isn’t much more damage done to Putin’s legacy by this escapade than the good he hoped to achieve by attempting to prove that Russia has joined the first world. Not gonna happen. Outside of a few urban professions, everyone in this part of the world does the least work possible for the highest return. It’s only rational for them to do so.