According to Rifkin, the “European Dream” is one in which individuals find security not through individual accumulation of wealth, but through connectivity and respect for human rights. Rifkin’s concept of connectivity is displayed in the Dutch people’s quest for gezelligheid (meaning a cozy, inclusive environment), as well as the social market theories that have dominated French and German economic planning since WWII. Rifkin argues that this model is better-suited to 21st-century challenges than the “American Dream”.

–Jeremy Rifkin, “The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream” (2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_European_Dream
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Ah, 2004. Good times.

The End of History had not entirely ended yet.

How’s that EU thingie working out?

In my reading — and please correct me on this detail if I’m really wrong — the Balkans were the locus of attempts to arm a fighting force from the Middle East to assist Hitler. My uncertain point: only an absence of literacy kept these forces from getting trained well enough to do so.

At any rate! I am outraged like our host. THIS is a serious and ultimately dangerous stain against the EU.

PS Eurocrats bow to the UN and its stooge, the ICJ. That’s how I see the sequence of “positioning” — in the US, the Woke and guilt driven kneel to BLM. Among Eurocrats and its brethren, they kneel to the UN.