I went into the doctor’s yesterday and that was the image of health care she sketched out: due to future budget cuts and the inverted demographics pyramid, people with less healthy lifestyles at some point in the future will no longer be helped. Pretty unsettling to hear such things. I guess we can do away with seatbelts and motorcycle helmets too then.

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I hadn’t meant to accuse you of pride, it was a poorly chosen term to indicate whether ‘union of a limited subset of cultures’ is a positive thing (= something to be proud of). I had no idea it would cause offense.

Schengen is about free movement of goods and workers. You might infer cultures from there, but as soon as that culture is Syrian or Afghan, there is pushback, so I’m not sure a union of cultures actually exists here… Perhaps for a very limited subset of cultures, but I’m not sure that’s something to be proud of, as that smells more of fascism than inclusion.

It was never a union of cultures. It started as an economic union of Coal and Steel…