European Union Continues Toward Role As World Player (BARF alert)

uExpress ^ | November 11, 2004 | Georgie Anne Geyer

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

In his excellent new book, "The European Dream," long-time student of the E.U. Jeremy Rifkin goes so far as to aver that the American Dream, with its excess of individualism, is actually languishing in the world: "A new European Dream is being born which emphasizes community relationships over individual autonomy, cultural diversity over assimilation, quality of life over the accumulation of wealth, sustainable development over unlimited material growth, deep play over unrelenting toil and universal human rights."

What a load of garbage. Sounds like someone longs for the collective.

[Skip98]

The mark of the beast, 666, is all coming together right before our eyes...

[Haro_546]

"deeply into the greatest democratic experiment of its history".

This is one absurd commentary, the organizations that have formed the have never been democratic... but run by unaccountable elites... come on is this guy serious. LOL

[Haro_546]

"cultural diversity over assimilation".... LOL look to the neatherlands for an example of their succes. Silly Euros.

[mozarky2]

Look up some of the crap written by this idiot! He considers himself a futurist, but I've never seen any of his predictions even come close to happening.

[mozarky2]

Georgie Anne Geyer is not a guy...

[Bernard]

the fervently anti-European Bush administration

No, Georgie Anne, nobody here pays any attention to the Europeans because they are fervently irrelevant.

[mozarky2]

In his excellent new book, "The European Dream," long-time student of the E.U. Jeremy Rifkin goes so far as to aver that the American Dream, with its excess of individualism, is actually languishing in the world: "A new European Dream is being born which emphasizes community relationships over individual autonomy, cultural diversity over assimilation, quality of life over the accumulation of wealth, sustainable development over unlimited material growth, deep play over unrelenting toil and universal human rights."
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Sounds like so much Soviet B.S. to me...

[mozarky2]

Amen to that!

[Haro_546]

Its a workers paradise.(remindsme of what the liberals used to say about the USSR)

[HooBoy]

"cultural diversity over assimilation" is exactly what has happened in the Netherlands, to their gathering regret. Political correctness is the beginning of cultural suicide in the West. Thank God the USA is still dancing the Texas Two-Step - Warnings followed by Devastating Action. In Old Europe (and its foreign bureaus in our MSM) it's the same old Liberal Three-Step - Accommodation, Appeasement, Surrender.

With a lack of jobs, and no clue about how to create them, The EU will decline no matter how many join their club. At least they'll feel good about themselves as the Muslims in their midst feed on their rotting carcass.

[the invisib1e hand]

a player? maybe. a loser? absolutely.

[Carry_Okie]

Jeremy Rifkin is the famous crusader against biotechnology, a man who has fought to help babies die. To get insight into his character, note that he has lectured at the Church of Euthanasia.

Their One Commandment: "Thou shalt not procreate"
Their Four Pillars: suicide · abortion · cannibalism · sodomy

Here is one of his lectures to the Church: An Afternoon with Jeremy Rifkin

[hershey]

G.Anne Geyer has always been sensible, so her current point of view is mindboggling. It sounds like wishful thinking, and she doesn't mention the teeny problem of entrenched Islamofascism or the European Union's inability to compete economically with an aging population and rampant socialism. Looks as if she swallowed Kerry hook, line and sinker.

[IStillBelieve]

the greatest democratic experiment of its history

The Big Lie.

[7.62 x 51mm]

"...to aver that the American Dream, with its excess of individualism, is actually languishing in the world..."

Yeah, sure thing Euro-weenie-socialist-commie-liberal-nazi-fascists: America's in the toilet and you are leading the way into the new century. Morons.

[sergeantdave]

Looks like this old communist hag heartily approves of the new soviet Europe that emphasizes group rights over individual rights and worships the bureaucrat as the new soviet man.

I give it three years before the EU opens the indoctrination camps and sends away politically incorrect dissenters for re-eductaion.

[thoughtomator]

That is, if you consider a fourth-string bench-warmer to be a "player".

[RJL]

The fun will start when it dawns on Chiraq, Schroeder, Putin and even Tony Blair, that once the European Union is fully ratified they are no longer heads of nation states.
They will be the leaders of a small part of the EU, much like one of the states in the United States.

When the President of The United States calls, he’ll be talking to his peer, the Leader of the EU in Brussels not in France or Germany. Of course Chiraq and Schroeder et al. will be welcome to meet with the US Governors.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

And if you go the site linked for this article, (uExpress), Georgie Geyer is put forward as a conservative. She makes David Brooks sound like a hard right winger.