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Originally posted by Nono,
A couple of weeks ago Jeremy Rifkin gave Swiss TV an hour-long interview about his new book The European Dream. |
That was an incredible description of the Euro-US differences.
I just bought the book from Amazon after reading your notes. (Thanks, Nono...you're bankrupting me; this was the last thing I was supposed to be purchasing right now, when I don't even have a personal income and I am only supppsed to be eating and nothing else... but I couldn't help it; freaking Amazon makes it so easy it's dangerous!
).
But after 7 years of American Dream, I have been longing to return to the European Dream like no tomorrow. It is still not possible for my family to move back there at this moment (practical issues), but we are taking baby steps ...by moving from a red state to a blue state. For now.
Not sure it will make a huge difference, but after 7 years of Southern kitch, cultural emptiness and painful superficialities, I get tears in my eyes when I see pictures from New England, and especially Boston.
I have never even been there but every time I see a Boston picture, it almost feels like Europe. Maybe I'll get lucky... :(