Europe is often criticised. In this time, Europe is even being criticised for being a moral reference in the world in aspects like ecology, adherence to dialogue and peace and social protection. When shameless stupidity rules, moral behaviour is considered a weakness.
Even in academic circles it has become ‘bon ton’ as they say
in French to criticise political authorities from the side line in choir with
the bullies. It's all going too slow. As highly educated people we tend to put
ourselves at the same height as the political authorities and by means of a
sharp tweet or a witty post we believe we can save the world from the
politicians’ ignorance and incompetence.
At least the sharp tweets and witty posts free us a few seconds of our general feeling of being totally unimportant. The breakdown of authority has gone so far that anybody carrying power should be ashamed of how badly things are going and how weak Europe is against the other geopolitical powers. We should be grateful for our freedom of speech, but we tend to look too negatively at things.
Europe is collaborating better than ever since it got under
pressure to take a new course. Collaboration is the key to every successful step
in space, defence, ecology or social advancement. If Europe now succeeds in
putting aside the national interests in favour of the general European interests, we
are on our way to success.
I refer to earlier blogs about Europe.
Picture: The Abduction of Europa by Zeus, statue in the town
of Leuven 2023 ©Wim Lahaye
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