Finally I meet someone who understands Europe as its truest spirit. Thank you so much.
Me, as a Spaniard, I do not how to express how thankful I am to Roman and Greek culture. They completely sharped my country. We never had to forget Spain was a very important Empire with those cultures. It is just my humble opinion but I think Mediterranean empires and culture was the basic starting point to all the Occidental countries (government, sociality, economy, State, law, philosophy, etc...)
Nevertheless, sadly, we live in a paradigma where the people do not give a damn about culture and roots. Most of Americans or Asians (no them all but the most) when they hear Europe they quickly think just UK, France, Holland and Germany (provably some Nordic too though). As I named previously the "north European". Yes, they have a better economy, industry and salaries than mine. But... These do not make them more european. A Greek (Mediterranean) is European as much as a German, French, Hungarian, Croatian... It is crazy how European continent has a lot of cultures but they only put economics first. — javi2541997
A good government is one that imitates/mimics anarchy to a T if possible — TheMadFool
you allow yourself to be trapped by the innocence that humanity, with power in hand, will act willingly simply because this act would benefit itself. — Gus Lamarch
The noble classist spirit of Europe should again be revived with pride! Not repudiated as a sin that they have committed! — Gus Lamarch
The exercise I was hoping to go through is the recognition that all societies are far more complex than what you'd like to paint it as. I offered as support a story of cooperation, which has happened and still happens if we look at local political structures. People willingly cooperate often and what they accomplish when they do this willingly because they are inspired is far greater than the fear you suggest as a driving factor or indeed the individualism you appear to push as a solution. It's too simplistic. — Benkei
The vocabulary you use isn't your own. — Benkei
In any case, I appreciate the somewhat more civil tone in the last few posts. — Benkei
Nowadays those barbarians are the rulers of EU... what happened? — javi2541997
We cannot take off the credit from the Germanic countries. They were the most civilized countries in the world between the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. — Gus Lamarch
But I guess we are not unique in the EU. Check out for example European historic countries like Poland and Hungry... everything is wrong and there are many differences. But I want to say here is that despite the social/economical problems we still “Europeans” doesn’t matter what the north European could say. — javi2541997
I have to admit it, my politicians destroy Spain the most they can. It is a shame. — javi2541997
Well, having a socialist Prime Minister in a Catholic kingdom is not a good strategy for achieving success. — Gus Lamarch
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