A parable for our times

Author David Solway (whose book on Israel I am currently reading) has a parable that describes our times perfectly. For several years, my family and I used to summer in the mountain hamlet of the small Greek island of Alonissos, where we had rented a house near the single village restaurant, run by a plump, bustling woman who went by the nickname of Kyratsoula. We and a couple of friends were