Romanticizing “past greatness” seems to always involve some very shit politics. It’s more obvious in these old empires, but it seems to exist in more subtle forms elsewhere else, too.
I was specifically talking about euros, but I guess a certain US president gets a honourable mention for his campaign slogan
Idolizing the past (and long gone) ‘grandeur’ of some European countries is not the best way to prepare for the future.
edit: as a disclaimer, I’m European from one of those once important countries.
Knackered, as t’were?
Such an underrated comment
Romanticizing “past greatness” seems to always involve some very shit politics. It’s more obvious in these old empires, but it seems to exist in more subtle forms elsewhere else, too.
I was specifically talking about euros, but I guess a certain US president gets a honourable mention for his campaign slogan