Ireland has, for most of its recent economic and political life, been the mayor in Jaws, sworn to a path of short-term pragmatism at the expense of longer-term planning
“I’m familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the ass,” Hooper says to mayor Vaughn in Jaws.
The gaudy-suited, chain-smoking mayor in Spielberg’s classic shark flick embodies the conflicting pressures of short-term political self-interest (keep the beaches open and the economy moving) and long-term necessity (close the beaches, our kids are being devoured by a killer shark).
Ireland has, for most of its recent economic and political life, been the mayor in Jaws, sworn to a path of short-term pragmatism at the expense of longer-term planning.
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