The EU wants (to be) more
The EU is throwing our money around. Now it has none left and wants more - from Germany. This simply cannot go on forever. An organism that grows endlessly will collapse - or kill its host.
Another brilliant essay on EU politics by one of my favorite philosophers, Dushan Wegner, whose astute logic and trenchant metaphors can still make you smile even on deadly serious topics. I just had to translate it for my Substack readers - Voilá:
By Dushan Wegner, June 21, 2023 – English translation by DeepThought
Why can’t elephants fly? - The simple answer would be: Because they don’t have wings. If elephants had wings, elephants could fly!
But things are not that simple.
If elephants wanted to fly, they would have to have correspondingly large wings. But that would increase the total mass of the animal. And that, in turn, would make larger wings necessary.
An ornithologist explains: »If you increase the size of a bird by one unit, the area of the wings must increase by that unit squared. And the mass (volume) increases by that unit cubed.« (snexplores.org, 3/28/2019)
It is not by chance but by principle that elephants do not fly. Even if nature were to try successfully through mutation, it would not last long.
Now even more
While you and I are thinking in the supermarket about whether we should buy a six-pack of milk or just individual cartons, the bigwigs in Brussels are throwing around billions of euros of taxpayers’ money that has been squeezed out of us.
And now they want even more.
bild.de, 21.6.2023 reports: »1.1 trillion euros are not enough: EU Commission wants even MORE money from us«. Germany is to »transfer even more billions to Brussels«.
Billions, which Mrs. von der Leyen passes on to her SMS friend Bourla, as well as tens of billions for Ukraine (in the social media it is called the »biggest money laundering action in history« - but I don't know if it is really the »biggest«).
Billions for »refugees« - and for payments to the »flawless« democrat Erdogan.
A cynic might say, »The point of the EU is to punish the industrious and make the shrewd rich.«
But this is possibly only the current state.
The EU’s problem may be a systemic one, inherent in its nature.
Even if the EU was once a good idea, it has become too big to fulfill its intended purpose. Too big geographically and too big in ambition.
The EU wants its own army, probably to play world police independent of NATO (see Wikipedia). The EU wants to determine which experimental drugs people have to inject themselves with in order to be allowed to travel (commission.europa.eu). The EU wants to dictate and censor what may be said and thought (commission.europa.eu). The EU wants to define what the »truth« is (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu). And all the other projects are going on, after all. In some EU cities, you can count on coming across construction projects every day that make you wonder what economic or other sense they make – and then reliably see the reference to EU funding.
For the local entrepreneur, his own investments and efforts are hardly worthwhile if a competitor with better relations to the EU bureaucracy can destroy him economically, because for the latter the capital is »free«, while he has to borrow and pay back or earn and pay tax on every euro. This ranges from construction projects to store premises to freelance activities such as online design.
It can not work
But I don’t even think that the EU really wants to destroy local entrepreneurs. Nor do I believe that they really planned to recreate the novel »1984« in practice and set up digital censorship. And when they signed the Montan Union treaty in Paris on April 18, 1951, they weren’t planning to install a boss who wasn’t on any ballot (there were other candidate names in the lying election), who was known in Berlin for passing millions to consultants, and is now passing billions to Pfizer and Ukraine in Brussels.
[Note: It was the then German Chancellor Merkel who ensured that her CDU party friend, Ursula von der Leyen, who had just previously failed as Minister of Family Affairs and most recently Minister of Defense in Germany, was able to occupy the influential post of EU Commission chief.]
The EU has simply become too big. It is like an elephant which one wants to grow wings. Or like a pigeon that has swollen to the size of an elephant.
It doesn’t work, it can’t work. And it no longer makes sense.
But when a system cannot function and makes no sense in its current form, it inevitably moves toward its collapse.
No radical diet
The EU will collapse unless it miraculously goes on a radical diet.
Far too many people are making absurd amounts of money from the indefinitely growing EU. But the EU grows and grows and grows in its ambition. We know which medical phenomenon grows indefinitely – and we know how it ends for the patient if left untreated.
Too many people are getting rich off the EU’s unlimited fat-raising for us to expect the will to diet effectively.
It has never been more urgent to acquire skills and other capital that will allow you to survive even after the EU collapses.
Assume that the tax burden will increase continuously. No one likes to fail, and Brussels bureaucrats consider every euro they leave you as their personal failure. In the future, it may be the wiser decision to forgo taxable income and learn to enjoy luxuries like free time anew instead.
And yet, even if the world is going crazy and the EU is becoming a monster on the verge of a heart attack, every day comes but once.
It will collapse. Our world will not end, but it will be a very different one.
And therefore: Seize your day!
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Link to the original article in German.