Switzerland has always been the place on earth where it is easiest to pretend nothing ever changes, and everything makes sense. My father is a mountain boy from the Swiss Alps, and in his village, you were raised to believe that the country’s last major upset was when Hannibal invaded the mountains with his elephants in 221 b.c. All the country’s symbols are about order and cleanliness and permanence. Swiss watches will tick-tock with scientific precision even after a nuclear
