Svizzera italiana

The cost of perfection

Moving from Zurich to Lucerne to Milan to Como to Lugano, I crossed invisible lines that shifted language, architecture, and the very texture of daily life—yet the beauty remained relentless, almost aggressively perfect. But standing in the pristine lakes and manicured landscapes, I couldn't escape a questions of injustice that felt almost obscene. Switzerland's famous neutrality began to look less like virtue and more like a convenient absence—a refusal to reckon with how European wealth, built on centuries of extraction and colonization, has insulated certain places from the chaos that defines everywhere else.