"Europe is a mess right now, and it’s because they’re chock-full of Low Human Capital. If they weren’t, they would try to hide their ethnostatiness, because to be an ethnostate is obviously low-status. In fact, for a while, elite Europeans did deny and ignore their ethnostatiness as much as they could—liberal parties tried to open markets and borders to prove to the world that they’d finally gotten over the silly 14th-century feuds that were still driving intra-European strife. They formed the EU, pretending to set aside their ethnicities for the sake of greater political agency."
The EU can also be viewed as an ethnonationalist project, simply a pan-ethnic one. Specifically a Pan-European ethnonationalist project. Similar to India nowadays becoming more and more of a Hindu nationalist project.
"Europe is a mess right now, and it’s because they’re chock-full of Low Human Capital. If they weren’t, they would try to hide their ethnostatiness, because to be an ethnostate is obviously low-status. In fact, for a while, elite Europeans did deny and ignore their ethnostatiness as much as they could—liberal parties tried to open markets and borders to prove to the world that they’d finally gotten over the silly 14th-century feuds that were still driving intra-European strife. They formed the EU, pretending to set aside their ethnicities for the sake of greater political agency."
The EU can also be viewed as an ethnonationalist project, simply a pan-ethnic one. Specifically a Pan-European ethnonationalist project. Similar to India nowadays becoming more and more of a Hindu nationalist project.
> But apparently he didn’t know what his boss had in mind for us.
Oh, I think he knew. :D
No notes for the rest of your post - agree completely.
was the title purposefully similar to the noahpinion article 3hr prior lmao
Oop… guess I’m just that plugged into the culture these days.