The crisis afflicting the western world is not fiscal it is the running out of daringness.

Sir I refer to Janan Ganesh’s “Britain ought to be thankful for its political class”, June 18. I cannot really tell whether it is backed by real empirical fundaments, but yet it is a fabulous ode that should at least help to stimulate, or shame out, a better behavior of politicians.

Frankly, I have no seen any similar constructive article in any of all the other divided countries that abound, and I just pray, at least for Britain’s sake, that it does not just reflect some delicate English black Jonathan Swiftish humor which has eluded me.

That said, when Janan Ganesh writes “The crisis afflicting the western world is fiscal”, he is being way too optimistic. The crisis of the western world is much deeper and reflects more baby-boomers economies reaching the point where they do not want to risk developing further, if that could endanger what they already have. In other words, a world that has reached the level of satisfaction that initially guarantees stagnation and then later leads to its fall.

The main expression of having run out of daringness, are regulatory capital requirements for banks based on perceived risk, which much favors bank lending to The Infallible and therefore hinders banks lending to The Risky.