Addendum: Another Sign That Europeans Are Batshit Crazy

British poll names deranged linguist Noam Chomsky the world's "top intellectual."

Once again, anti-Americanism is just a passive-aggressive form of patriotism. Europeans are too "nuanced" to engage in genuine nationalistic chauvanism (except the French-- the one thing I credit them for), so they instead sublimate their national pride, which cannot be openly expressed ("That's just not done, Old Man"), by simply bashing America. It's the politically-correct, sophisticatedly neo-Marxist way to say "We're Number One!!! Hooo-yahhh!"

When you bash something, you are nearly expressly calling yourself superior to the object of your scorn.

I think relations between America and Europe could improve a bit if Europeans could get over their passive-aggressive "anti-jingoist" form of jingoism and simply say, as Americans do, that they're proud to be citizens of the countries of their births.

Is there much national pride left in Britain? Seems to me a lot of the people making a strong case for Britain's quite-noble and proud role in world history are Americans, not the British themselves.

posted by Ace at 02:12 PM

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