@jeffjarvis

Excellent! ✊🇩🇪

@jeffjarvis

I am happy to see this, although

> After all, that arrangement worked out rather well for the 2000 years before Hemingway and the Big Mac.

makes me ask "2000 years? Why 2000 years?".

And of course we all know why 2000 years. So then my advice is "Maybe don't bend the knee to the Christians so much.".

@jeffjarvis Childish and unreflected article full of colonial thinking and moral grandiosity. Divisive instead of reaching out for communalities. Eurocentric on top of all. The EU is -at it's core- a neo-colonial endeavor, at the end of the day pursuing profit maximization of it's affiliated economies as top priority. Humanism might (!) come as a by broduct if you're lucky.
Europe's history is full of shameful cruelty and barbary, colonialism and religious bigotry. The Mediterranean at this very day is (willfully) the deadliest border on earth. No word on all that from the author.

Being German myself I can partly understand the unspoken grudge present in many Germans given the slavish cultural subdomination under American popular culture since WWII. The writer is clearly a specimen who seems to have suffered from this, and finally, FINALLY, can let go off some Dampf (steam). Playing the isolationist card now is not smart at all, to claim any historic moral high ground for Europe, is questionable.