Wherever one goes in central Zagreb, Christmas decorations are still going full blast. Streets and squares keep blinking merrily day and night. Discounts are deeper than before the vaunted holiday, but the good cheer remains unblemished. Buy, buy, buy! The budding Croatian capitalism is about Christmas and nothing but Christmas. If only it could be stretched all year round! In the event, capitalism would be saved from its own avaricious vices. And Christianity would be married to it for centuries to come. No matter how pitifully abased, it would stand as the bulwark of incessant acquisition. But the impoverished masses can do only so much. The impulse to acquire is still there, no doubt, but pockets are already empty. Painfully empty, as a matter of fact. Alas, the decorations are about to come down! Any day now, the capitalist dream will be pushed forward. Save, save, save! The next Christmas is just behind the corner. It will be even more glorious than all the Christian holidays of the past put together. After all, Croatian capitalism is at stake. And insatiable Christianity is its hallmark.