Years back I read a post once in a specialized forum (pickleball), about how some folks were trying to introduce pickleball to Italy. They had shipped a bunch of pickleball equipment to Italy, and it it had been held up by customs for MONTHS, for god knows what reason. A bureaucrat trying to justify his job, probably.
I'll bet this kind of story, over and over, is why Italy is the worst off.
It's over bureaucratized and never really developed a political ethos since the end of the renaissance
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