Tales of high and low life from the New Europe: In the beau monde, former French prime minister Cresson was charged in connection with a European Union fraud scandal. The lady had apparently given her dentist boyfriend at least $150,000 in EU money. Meanwhile, down in the trenches,
- Turkish children organize reign of terror at German school. Apparently, gangs of them had been setting on German boys and beating them quite severely for over a year. Nonetheless, “[s]taff at the school only appeared to recognise the problem after a teacher saw two Turkish gang members beat an Italian pupil at a bus stop so severely that he was unable to stand.” As conscientious proponents of the multicultural state, the teachers may have simply been unable to recognize a string of hate crimes as long as it was German children who were the targets.
- And in England, Demoralised teachers ‘failing to report abuse’ and Nurses feel brunt of ‘waiting room rage’ epidemic. It seems it’s not the tight little isle we used to hear about.
What’s the point of mentioning such things? Not, particularly, to prove that Turks or female French politicians are bad people. I have no reason to think they’re better or worse than opera singers or used car salesmen. Such stories, however, are emblematic of the self-destruction of Europe though the soft utopianism of multiculturalism and the universal managerial state. Bad conduct will be the result if you root out settled habits and standards of conduct other than self-interest, self-assertion, and sentimentalism. Things that in the past simply wouldn’t have happened will become commonplace and make life impossible for many people. Exactly what are the benefits that make it all worth it?