"Told ya so!!"
Posted on 09/14/2004 12:39:32 PM PDT by Pikamax
Art show sees Europe as 'new Roman Empire' By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels (Filed: 14/09/2004)
The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower, according to an EU exhibition launched yesterday in the heart of Brussels.
The pop-art collage mounted in a tent outside the European Commission narrates 50 years of EU history and projects events into the future in an unusually frank display of European ambition.
Segments sketched across 80 yards of canvas predict that the 21st century will be the "European Century" as the EU pushes its borders deep into Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach".
Under the heading the "Roman Empire returns", it says the EU will be renamed "The Union" once it grows to 50 states over the next three decades.
The United Nations headquarters will be moved to Gibraltar as the EU defends the international order against the "American onslaught".
The euro will break the "overbearing monopoly of the dollar" by 2010 as China and India switch their reserves to punish America for its "stratospheric deficit".
Casting the United States as the villain of modern times, it says: "The lonely superpower can bribe, bully or impose its will almost anywhere in the world, but when its back is turned, its policy is weakened."
Entitled "The Image of Europe", the display is not a formal expression of EU policy but it captures views that can be heard every day in the corridors and canteens of the Union's institutions.
The exhibit was co-ordinated by the European Commission and sponsored by the European Council. The EU's Dutch presidency said yesterday it was designed to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images.
Well, I guess that makes the US the Turks...
... I'm trying so hard not to laugh... oh, screw it.
BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!
And they are inviting the Huns to come live with them.
Oh, yes. I recall Gibbon chronicling how the Romans subdued three continents with an irresistible army of diplomats and lawyers.
Sorry, kids, "we'll be in charge because we deserve it" doesn't cut it in the hard, old world. But nice try.
So the Euro-trash wish. Yeah their real stable. After all they have done such a terrific job in policing their own back yard in Bosnia, Kosovo and Croatia.
Segments sketched across 80 yards of canvas predict that the 21st century will be the "European Century" as the EU pushes its borders deep into Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach".This is post-modern version of gathering in the Hagia Sophia and praying for the angels to save you.
In the days of the Empire's decline, the proletarian class of Rome neither earned wages or owned property.
Rome was ruled and owned by a caste of wealthy landowners and all the actual work was done by foreigner servants imported from abroad.
The average Roman citizen, although poor, considered himself to be above work. Since this idle group of losers had little to do except complain and riot when left to their own devices, the upper classes famously gave them "bread and circuses" - free food and games at the coliseum - in order to pacify and distract them.
In today's Europe there are, of course, a caste of superrich and a caste of foreign servants. And there is an enormous middle class that believes itself to be above working, works as little as possible and this class is ready to riot or strike at a moment's notice. So the masters give them the welfare state for free food and football for circuses.
Between socialism, isolationism, and a rapidly growing Middle Eastern population, I think Europe's in for real problems in this century.
Along with the US, the real players of the future will be on the Pacific Rim.
Julius Caesar is turning over in his grave right about now.
"All Gaul is divided into three parts; Antiamericium, Appeasementium, and Arrogantium."
France is the enemy - France has always been the enemy.
Like that's going to happen.
the innovation which will drive leadership in this world will come from the US, and from Asia, in no way Europe.
It is likely that the WWW will destroy the EU socialist mindset if the Ayrabs don't do it first.
The US will still be standing tall in fifty years, (of course estaremos hablando espanol -- but one has to ask whether they would prefer to meld with the culture of mohammed and osama bin laden or the culture of cervantes, neruda and ortega-y-gasset. the melding will occur regardless of our desires in this matter.)
This goes hand in hand with the prophecies in the book of Daniel and in Revelations.
That's exactly why I'm an isolationist and a nationalist. The euros have become like spoiled children. We give them everything and they want more. We should and need to withdraw from all peace keeping operations, cut foreign aid, withdraw troops from germany, and withdraw from NATO. Let the world go to hell for a few years and that will make the appreciate us. If we continue to do everything for them, they will continue to be ungrateful.
It doesn't matter though, Europe will be a province of the Grand Caliphate by 2050 if not sooner at the rate they are going. And the kicker is we will probably have to go Crusade (again, if you count WWII) to save this aspiring New Rome, just like that last New Rome needed saving from the Muhammadans.
This isn't surprising. I've always thought that Europeans have always yearned for the return of the Roman Empire ever since that empire fell. That accounts for the Holy Roman Empire, the Tsars and Kaisers (caesars), and the Reichs and various other empires, etc., along with their current efforts.
:)
Pride before the fall.
"Told ya so!!"
Definitely not a case of art imitating life.
So how many nations in EU are still in a recession anyway?
Someone tell the EU that the Romans had their own army, and didn't have to depend on someone else to defend their sorry backsides.
The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower,...
It's kind of hard to be a superpower when you grab your ankles every time you get in trouble.
When the Jews return to Zion
And a comet fills the sky
The Holy Roman Empire rises
And you and I must die
From the eternal sea he rises
Creating armies on either shore
Turning man against his brother
Till man exists no more
Bad idea to have watched the Omen box set a week ago.
Regards, Ivan
It may be "roman" and conceivably even an "empire", but "holy"?? Never.
…designed to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images.
The last time Europe had a group producing forceful images with visions of pushing their borders into neighboring areas, didn't they end up trashing the whole continent (not to mention a large part of the world)? And liberals think that America has imperialistic ambitions – sheesh! Sounds like that whole nazi thing is alive and well in “sophisticated” Europe.
It being holy in the first instance was pretty sporadic too. :)
Regards, Ivan
So should we just surrender now? You know those Frenchmen are tough..........
"The European Union is poised to overtake America to become the premier superpower, according to an EU exhibition launched yesterday in the heart of Brussels."
Not in their wildest dreams. The real reality is that Europe is being buried under a sea of Moslems and other Third Worlders.
I have maintained that for years. We need to make new alliances without NATO. Just imagine what a safe world it would be if we allied ourselves with Russia, Japan, Australia, Pakistan or India, some Eastern European countries and anyone other than central Europe willing to be safe?
Screw the EUrinals.
This sort of foolishness comes from the paradox of the EU.
The EU ruling elite has delusions of grandeur but the European man in the street has no wish to sacrifice his 35 hour workweek, six week vacation, cradle to grave social welfare lifestyle to pay the price and take the risks necessary to make those dreams real. The European man in the street has no wish to make the sacrifices necessary to turn the EU into a kind of Third French Empire strong enough to take on America.
So they think they can persuade us that we have some kind of "moral duty" to collectivize the decisions we make and give them a veto over our actions. They babble foolishness about "legal and moral reach" as if pious posturing and pieces of paper were the stuff of power, not the courage of real men and women.
A continent too PC to complain or even notice that packs of young Muslims are routinely gang-raping their daughters is not one destined to play any role in history.
Sounds like a "Monty Python" skit. Absolutely insane.
Well actually towards the end of the empire they did. In fact it was largely because there were so few Italians in the armies that the Empire lost it's stability and fragmented into smaller territorial militarily governorships controlled by local armies who were only nominally Roman and under foreign command. e.g. The titles of the medieval nobility for the most part come from military ranks of the Roman allied armies.
ROTLMAO!!! Great post ;D
Um... most everyone (I assume) knows about the Lisbon council where the EU set itself a deadline to be the "most competitive economy in the world by 2010". I believe the overall plan is to catch up in terms of GDP.
However German finance minister Hans Eichel disagrees and there are a number of Economists saying that Europe is going the wrong way.
http://www.euobserver.com/?aid=17227
" as the EU pushes its borders deep into Eurasia, North Africa, and the Middle East and comes to dominate world affairs through its vast "legal and moral reach"."
This is the idea behind Jaques Iraq thinking he has the standing to call Russia to account for its handling of the Chechen terrorist.
If they truly ever intend to become a power much less a superpower, they better start making babies, because it takes people to "push those borders," and they're going to be woefully short-handed.
There's a CBS and font joke in there somewhere...
Despite what some people think, life DOESN'T imitate art.
"The United Nations headquarters will be moved to Gibraltar"
Thank God, our prayers will be answered!
...to narrow Europe's "iconographic deficit" by conjuring up forceful images...
Does Iconographic mean?
PRODUCTIVITY DEFICIT
INOVATION DEFICIT
TECHNOLOGICAL DEFICIT
STANDARD OF LIVING DEFICIT
COMFORT OF LIVING DEFICIT
HOME OWNERSHIP DEFICIT
HEALTH CARE QUALITY DEFICIT
and also ALL THINGS MILITARY DEFICIT
Lived there and after the museums, the castles and the restaurants, it sucked and will continue to suck as long as they focus their effort on fixing their "ICONOGRAPHIC" deficiencies.
They should be focusing on the risk of becoming the CALIPHATE rather than the mean ol'USA power.
They're kidding, right? The EU's enormous entitlement liability dwarfs America's.
Kinda hard to to that if your militaries can't fight their way out of a paper bag.
"All Gaul is divided into three parts; Antiamericium, Appeasementium, and Arrogantium."
Brilliant! Simply brilliant!
Yeah? You and what army?
"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."
I say they first fall over and then get destroyed. Of course, either way....
Well when the Euroweenies decide they want to rule the world, there won't be any more Stratospheric US deficit....Do the Math...our deficits generally equal the amount of our foreign aid and foreign defense committments....get rid of them an voila! No more deficits. And that is the dirty little secret that Europe will not acknowldge (but certain German localities are just realizing it now as we pull our bases out of their midst)!
”Most Americans have a standard of living which a majority of Europeans will never come anywhere near.”
A recent visitor of mine from Europe in the US for the first time struggled to say, "You...have...so...much...compared...to...us" to me in a conversation about disparities in wealth between the US and EU.
He came to visit believing all the things about America that EU propaganda tells its people - like art shows depicting the EU as the Roman Empire. What he got utterly destroyed his Euro-notions of America. From the the hospitals (everything is so new and you don't have to wait), to the supermarkets (we don't have that in stores over there), to the tax rates (lower here than there), his whole worldview changed radically in the time he was here.
He came as a strutting, arrogent Euro-fied, EU true believer and left wanting to come back to live in the US permenently. So much for the new Roman Empire.
I told him, you better be ready to work hard or you're better off staying home!
Fifteen posts before the first "end times" reference. We're getting better. These folks usually show up within the first half dozen or so.
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