[Skybird]

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In the meantime, Europe and especially Germany have left the path of success. Even small military conflicts cannot be resolved without the help of the USA. For the U.S., Europe is more of a burden than an ally that can be counted on in case of conflict.

Sure, the churches are empty and secularization is far advanced. But with ecologism and postmodern ideology, Europe and especially Germany are in the process of submitting to new and closely related religions just as the Portuguese did with fundamentalist Catholicism at the beginning of the modern era. The fervently held belief that man can change his sex is in the process of displacing the findings of biology. Genetic engineering, nuclear power and artificial intelligence are demonized and in some cases banned. And the knowledge gained at universities and institutes can only be put into practice slowly and hesitantly, if at all. The desire to live in prosperity is demonized. The clerics of the post-growth economy praise poverty and renunciation and thus gain popularity among people who no longer have any idea of what poverty and renunciation mean in everyday life.

Progress is no longer taking place in Europe. No other region in the world is following in its path. In terms of the number of patents, its countries have long since been unable to keep up with China and the USA. Companies are outsourcing research and production: The genetic engineering departments of Bayer and BASF are in the U.S., the dual fluid reactor developed in Germany is being worked on in Canada, and in the IT sector, Europe, where the computer was invented, has long ceased to play a major role.

Instead of an efficient agriculture that can help to feed nine billion people soon, which is nothing but a damned duty of Europe, it wants to become the delicatessen producer of the world. The European Union dreams of regulating technologies worldwide. It was different in 2000: The Lisbon Strategy adopted at that time wanted to make Europe the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economic area in the world. Now it just wants to become the global TÜV (Technischer Überwachungs-Verein, MOT; Skybird)

Europe, and Germany too, is free to choose relegation and poverty. If its citizens want it that way, this wish will come true. It would only not be stupid to realize what it means if it becomes reality: Poverty is not picturesque, it means death for many people. Freedom and democracy are closely linked to prosperity; it pacifies societies, mitigates distributional struggles and creates security. It protects the weak, because in poor societies the law of the strongest applies. And by the way, in a poor Europe there will not only be no more good hospitals: There will also be fewer chairs for post-growth economics and gender studies. Yes, poverty also has its good sides.