Regular Dispatch 34. So natural you just take it for granted

Contemplating freedom; transitions; normality.

• Lech Walesa on the Challenge of Poland's Transformation — The transition from capitalism to communism is easy, one decree on nationalization solves the problem. However, the transition from communism to capitalism is a totally different matter. It is easy to make fish soup from the aquarium with living gold-fish, but just imagine what challenge it is to try to make the aquarium with living goldfish out of the fish-soup. And this is precisely what we are trying to do.
• Lech Wałęsa: Wikipedia
• Lech Walesa: The Shipyard | Peace Films by Errol Morris | The New York Times - YouTube
• Lech Walesa: 1989 Speech in U.S. Congress