The New Klondyke
<p>The weird thing about ‘gold rushes’ is that perfectly ordinary people suddenly head out across hundreds, thousands of miles of inhospitable terrain in order to suffer, in all probability, bitter disappointment when they get there. They know the score but they still do it, in their tens, hundreds of thousands. Why? Because they’ve heard there’s a bonanza ready and waiting to be plucked and they might just be a lucky plucker. Gold fever can infect anyone discontented with their present lot and with a modicum of wanderlust<em>.</em></p>
<p>Why am I telling you this yawnworthy news of yesteryear? It is because tens, hundreds of thousands of people are doing the same thing right now and it is causing a great deal more grief for many more people than gold strikes in out of the way places ever did. It’s called the refugee crisis<em>.</em></p>
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