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Originally Posted by Nippelspanner
Auswandern?
Seriously, did you consider it?
I sure do, but that's something quite risky of course. Our country sure isn't running that great but... It could really be worse. As for the society, I agree, it's my biggest gripe too - but would it be that different in another western country? Can't make my mind up about that.
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I now feel too old for that, also I have growing health issues. And I hold no profession that is in demand in places I would consider. According countries have no reason wanting to let me in, and I absolutely play by my own rules which I also demand from others: you have no right whatever to demand entrance where you are not wanted by the owners of that place.
30 years ago, there was sort of a chance, a choice that formed up as an option, but then fate plowed it under. So it goes.
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I now have gotten a copy of that book that I linked - or whose author I linked - to some days ago, in context with that part of discussion about comparing Roman and EU history. Friday and Saturday I did nothing else, almost, than reading it. Brilliant analysis. Author is a German-Belgian professor for ancient Greek and Roman history, originally poublished in French (
David Engels: Le Déclin. La Crise de l'Union européenne et la chute de la République romaine - analogies historienne) it already was a big surprise success on the French market and since two or three years has been reworked and rebublished by him in his mother tongue, German:
Auf dem Weg ins Imperium. Die Krise der Europäischen Union und der Untergang der Römischen Republik: Historische Parallelen.
LINK French
LINK German
Very much recommended, the term "brilliant" is on my mind. 540 pages, 70 of which are appendices. His empirical data and his comparisons reveal stunning conclusions. The new German revision goes even beyond the French first edition from 2013.