Europe's economic and social policies are not the only thing that is bankrupt. Its underlying philosophy is corrupt as well. Symptomatic in this regard are the rants of Bernard Henry-Levy, a Frenchman whom the BBC called "one of the foremost living philosophers in the Western world." He thinks that Bosnia, with its ethnic mix, is "something to which all Europe should aspire." This delusion about Bosnia's multi-cultism does not even remotely correspond to the violent and divided reality of that forcibly maintained "nation." Following Levy's prescription would lead Europe in short order into a spectacularly violent orgy of self-destruction, one that would make the Bosnian War seem romantic in comparison.
Henry-Levy's madness does not end here. He regards the EU primarily as a tool for destruction of national particularities, believing that "All that allows us to bypass nationalism is good." Also evident in his BBC interview is Levy's fundamental commitment to multi-cultist policies of guilt. In addition, he champions social engineering and humanitarian intervention (he was an outspoken partisan of the Izetbegovic regime in Bosnia).
Yet Europe's greatest strength has always been its heterogeneity, the fragmentation of its political and cultural landscape that drove competition and innovation as well as conflict, and enabled the European (now called "Western") civilization to make such an imprint on the rest of the world, for good or ill. Such a divided Europe advanced both the philosophies of free market and socialism, individual liberty and omnipotent government, universalism and nationalism. Levy's vision is but one extreme of European civilization, composed of legacies that are morally dubious and empirically violent.
He wants to make Europe resemble Bosnia, and the BBC – along with many others – praises him for it. What more proof does one need that the West has truly fallen?
"Balkans and the EU, The Leviathan Cometh", Nebojsa Malic
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