I guess it’s fair to say that we have too much history, asterion.
Some history will never be forgotten and is prone to be a deterent to decissions made by some hopefuls.
We’re too different.
I couldn’t be farther apart from - for example - a Greek. [they have their own alphabet, for crying out loud]
Europe is not at all like the United States.
We have our own languages, our own cultures and our own pride in our countries.
It’ll never work. [all imho, ofcourse]
Wouldn’t want my own, anyway. We had our day in the sun.
Only one answer: the USA. The most remarkable country ever formed, with the possible exception of Israel.
The US is the hobbit that can bear the ring without being totally ruined. Even though it may appear that one of the loonier hobbits is currently ring-bearer, it’ll get back to a more introspective (not insular), homely (not homelandy), and adventurous (not adventurist) hobbit in due course.
the French were the cooks
the Italians were the lovers
the Germans were the engineers
the English were the police
and the Swiss organised everything.
Unfortunately we’d be more likely to see an EU superpower in which
the English were the cooks
the Swiss were the lovers
the French were the engineers
the Germans were the police
and the Italians organised everything.
[small olive branch]If it helps, Twisty, I’m not proud of everything the British ever did, in Ireland or elsewhere; and I’m touchier than most, perhaps. As to being an Imperial apologist, though, I rather feel we did much less harm, and much more good, than we might have done, or than others have done. We were no more prone to slavery than our neighbours, and quicker than some at turning abolishionist; we chose to meddle in native politics in preference to genocide; if the benefits we visited upon our colonies were out of enlightened self-interest, benefits they were nonetheless.[/sob]
I tend to agree with roger thornhill. America is to world superpowerdom much what democracy is to government; the worst choice possible, except for all the others. ::sniffle:: Our little kid’s all grown up now.
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Love that, Malacandra.