Fwd: Erratic thoughts from Greece

[Ian Livingston]

>> The EU can't have a US-like unified currency/economy because its culture
will never be that unified.<

>THIS is doubtlessly correct.

Yes, I agree, except for the suggestion that the reason the US seems
unified is that we are so. The real reason the states of the US agree to
taxation and such is that the people within those states will never be
unified. European states have their several cultures, whereas "American
culture" breaks apart quickly on inspection. You can't confuse Berliners
with Parisians, but, without orientation, you wouldn't know a Washingtonian
from an Arizonan. Californians are from China, Mexico, Arkansas, Germany,
Pakistan, etc., and the same is true in Minnesota, Texas, and Maryland. The
old WASP culture has decayed into desperate narcissism of the sort that
rejects everything not "me." The EU may never be unified, but neither will
Louisiana, Oregon, or Maine. Our self-centered anarchy renders us readily
ruled. That's why we are (or seem) unified.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:55 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> On 20.02.2015 05:33, David Morris wrote:
>
> > The EU can't have a US-like unified currency/economy because its culture
> will never be that unified.<
>
> THIS is doubtlessly correct.
>
>
>
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