“The European Dream exists at the crossroads between post-modernity and the merging global age and provides the suspension to bridge the divide between the two eras. Post-modernity was never meant to be a new age but, rather, was more of a twilight period of modernity—a time to sit in judgment about the many shortfalls of the modern era. If the sixties generation of protests and experimentation was aimed at both knocking down old boundaries that constrained the human spirit and testing new realities, it came with an intellectual companion in the form of post-modern thought.”
The European Dream
When I first read the European Dream, my mind was opened to the different roles that Europe and the United States play on this planet. Europe has always felt far more apart at the global age than the U.S. has to me in that it has the capability of bridging many eras. It holds in its history wisdom and knowledge that we can learn from today. As I look at the European Union and its policies and developments regarding human rights, I realize that there is a grandmother/grandfather wisdom that we could learn a great deal from. I have always believed that Europe would someday look at us—the toddler—and be able to provide us leadership from its history and past learnings.
Maureen Simon
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