🚨"We don’t have to immediately contract the flu when someone in America coughs."
"A brief reminder: When the Europeans conquered the American continent in the early 16th century, at a time when coyotes and grizzlies were still bidding each other good night where New York and Los Angeles would later appear – Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo were feverishly drawing, painting and building the Medici’s Florence, the spiritual center of the world. And this High Renaissance was itself just a "rebirth" of the venerated advanced civilizations of Greek and Roman antiquity a couple thousand years ago."
zeit.de/kultur/2025-03/europe-…
Europe and the US: Thanks America, That’ll Be All
Andy Warhol, Big Mac, iPhone: It was a grand American epoch. But it’s over. Europe must finally emancipate itself – just not as awkwardly as Jürgen Habermas might like.Florian Illies (ZEIT ONLINE)
-jonny-
in reply to Digit • • •I miss "so they claim" in that sentence. It is quite hard to be completely sure and at least with DuckDuck I don't buy it.
Digit
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