Swiss irony

I had not been in Geneva in summer for 4 years and forgot the sense of irony that at times permeates in the Swiss otherwise very pacified environment.
Geneva in Summer is a magnet for outrageously wealthy members of the world economies...you name it... eastern European oligarchs, Gulf oil magnate, African dignitaries, Latin American new billonaires from very old families...all congregate here.
The interesting thing is also that most of the countries our modern heroes come from are known for taking a very "liberal" stance on environmental issues, freedom of speech, democracy, humanitarian issues, armed and religious conflicts...and the same way all the French are all collectively the bearers of the French goods and evils ( no, I do not rape maids when I stay in luxury hotels. This is not taught at school either ) , the wandering billionaires inevitably come to represent their countries.
Someone in the Canton of Geneva must have thought than you cannot simply take the money and shut up. They decided to use the President Wilson lakeside promenades to host the www.cartooningforpeace.org  exhibition. A UN supported exhibition that basically aims at using the power of journalistic cartoons to  attract your attention and mine on all the things that can go wrong in the world...with an ironic focus on the countries where some of our vacationing billionaires come from.
There I am, strolling along the Quai Wilson a night, looking with gourmandise at all said tourists being "forced" to endure cartoons making visible to the world the sufferings and pains some of their own people have to go through back home in a place they chose for its "neutrality"!
I cannot believe noone thought of this before authorising the exhibition. Nor can I believe something good cannot come of it. This is probably the closest you can find to a Swiss revolutionary initiative. The Swiss sense of irony is alive and kicking. I will enjoy it again another night before flying back to Panama, the country that is now waiting for the return of Noriega with anger or passion. make up your own mind on the issues of the world on www.cartooningforpeace.org.  That is one no censors can stop anymore so it would be a waste to turn our back to.  One of the drawings mentions malnutrition...a way for me to remind all of us that 2 billion people in the world live with less than 2 dollars a day, half of which suffer from chronical malnutrition and 800 000 do not have access to clean water. You can help by donating a dollar or  luxury car to www.csdw.org. My friend Paul in Malawi and my brothers in Haiti will be thankful.
Good night and good luck.