By the way, Europe's time is *not* past and the EU is *not* a charade.
It is a development of a federation of European states into a far more powerful entity, similar to the federation of the original 13 colonies to form the USA.
Not quite. Unlike the 13 American colonies, the member nations of the EU don't share a common language or cultural/ideological background. Even with these advantages, the US fought a civil war; what makes you think that the member nations of the EU will function well w/ each other, given the quantity and quality of their differences?
This is a great bit of news. We have know for a long time that the history of a war is written by those winning the war. This simply extends this theory a bit.
Well, not really. E.g., Thucydides' "The History of the Peloponnesian War" is one of the definitive accounts of that conflict, even through is was written by a citizen of the losing city-state. The whole "winners write the history books" line has always seemed overly cynical and simplistic to me.
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It is a development of a federation of European states into a far more powerful entity, similar to the federation of the original 13 colonies to form the USA.
Not quite. Unlike the 13 American colonies, the member nations of the EU don't share a common language or cultural/ideological background. Even with these advantages, the US fought a civil war; what makes you think that the member nations of the EU will function well w/ each other, given the quantity and quality of their differences?
This is a great bit of news. We have know for a long time that the history of a war is written by those winning the war. This simply extends this theory a bit. Well, not really. E.g., Thucydides' "The History of the Peloponnesian War" is one of the definitive accounts of that conflict, even through is was written by a citizen of the losing city-state. The whole "winners write the history books" line has always seemed overly cynical and simplistic to me.