degringolade | Disgust

Plants on my walks make me happy

Voltaire. At best, a snarky frog but of all the “philosophers” of that era, I can get along with his “big three”; freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state. But today, I want to speak of his famous quip:

"This agglomeration, which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire, was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."

I think that the European Union is merely another attempt at recycling the idea of the Holy Roman Empire. Even worse than the rotating millionaires that populate our politics, the Eurotrash seem to wish to create a clever disguise for the recreation of the Ancien Régime with a different set of nobility replete with an inquisition to suppress any thoughts deemed unworthy.

I am annoyed by the poseurs who sit around and declaim anything European as worthy. Remember, they are the colonial powers that spend couple of centuries raping Africa, the Middle East, India, and Asia. We threw the bastards off this continent 250 years ago, we should stick to that principle (and please, do me the courtesy of not trying to claim the French as our helpers, Louis XVI didn’t do it because he “loved liberty”, he did it because it screwed the British).

Nope, I say let Europe stew in their own juices. They deserve what they have coming to them. I think that the Non-Europeans that they have in their countries should take over from the aristocratic swine that has floated to the top.