Biofuels are merely the easy scapegoat of a mercenary system that must be revolutionised as soon as possible.

Basketball is not alone in what some fear is an increasingly mercenary system by which coaches and parents try to improve their own situations through young athletes.

In addition to the familiar theme of the defenseless literary man ground down by a mercenary system, Fuchs apprehends something deeper: the entire "dream factory" is fueled by free-floating anxiety, owing to an obvious but troubling truth.

Born during a time of emerging Swiss patriotism and increasing criticism of the Swiss mercenary system, he attended the University of Vienna and the University of Basel, a scholarly centre of humanism.