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Emmanuel Macron and the barren elite of a changing continent
h/t Instapundit[WashingtonExaminer] Emmanuel Macron founded a new party, and his election as France's president is said to herald the "revival of Europe." Interestingly, Macron has no children. This is not that notable in itself. After all, George Washington had no biological children. But across the continent Macron wants to bind closer together, there's a stark pattern: German Chancellor Angela Merkel also has no children. British prime minister Theresa May has no children. Italian prime minister Paolo Gentiloni has no children. Holland's Mark Rutte has no children. Sweden's Stefan Löfven has no biological children. Luxembourg's Xavier Bettel has no children. Scotland's Nicola Sturgeon has no children. Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, has no children. This is too remarkable to ignore. While Macron is young--39 years old--the rest of Europe is being governed by childless Baby Boomers. Tom Wolfe wrote about Baby Boomers and the Me Decade: Most people, historically, have not lived their lives as if thinking, "I have only one life to live." Instead they have lived as if they are living their ancestors' lives and their offspring's lives and perhaps their neighbors' lives as well. They have seen themselves as inseparable from the great tide of chromosomes of which they are created and which they pass on. The mere fact that you were only going to be here a short time and would be dead soon enough did not give you the license to try to climb out of the stream and change the natural order of things. Children are a lot of work. Really impact your "finding yourself" - especially if there is nothing much to find. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-05-14 |
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