Well Done Europe

In the last years I've lost almost all interest in space exploration. Indeed as I've been drawn more and more into geography, history, human societies (that's why I so much love/need traveling) my interest in science has quite decreased (save for programming). Maybe for that, I've welcomed the success of the Rosetta mission even more than I would have done years ago. It's cause more than in the scientific discoveries that this mission can achieve, I'm interested in the "European rediscovery" that it can bring about (and well, the fact that part of the mission were managed from Toulouse also makes it more appealing).

After so many years being instilled with that feeling of disenchantment and decadence by our enemies, even the more proudly Europeans among us have ended up believing their lies, that Europe is over, that we're an old, declining society with no more future than using the memories of our glorious past to try to attract tourists or students from the new "big players": China, India, Arab medieval kingdoms... I hope this small success could be a key to open that prison of apathy and self-pity in which Europe has been locked up. It would be false to say that "Europe is back" cause we've always been here. In spite of the crisis, of our lame governments, of the USA... Europe has continued to be for all these years the most advanced and dynamic society in the world. After having been almost destroyed for so many internal wars we voided the chances of new ones by tearing down our internal borders, we've avoided depopulation by welcoming and integrating newcomers (however much I hate the radical Islam or the conservative trends with which some of these new inhabitants have tried to infect the continent, the overall result of this immigration flow is a clear enrichment of our society). We've continued to create and innovate, and we'll continue to do so, cause Europe is a land of Future, all we need is to believe in ourselves. If during so many centuries of fratricidal wars we developed the most advanced culture in this world, just think what we can achieve if we were to completely erase our internal borders and open the external ones to anyone willing to contribute to these achievements and be one of us.

As the French media has been saying these days, "Bravo Europa"