The Future of Europe

Mia's post really got me thinking: if we can't fight about blood and race and nations than what can we fight about? Cas, you asked us in class what the future of Europe looked like? Honestly, i think it's in human nature to fight, to be brutal, to kill, to take, to conquer, etc... I don't think that Europe could ever be truly unified or that the world could ever be truly unified. Now, that would be amazing and peaceful and PERFECT. But perfection is an absolute that is impossible to attain. We will always fight- it's obviously in our past. If there is one thing i've learned from reading this textbook it's that EVERYONE is involved in some kind of war or disagreement. Some country is always fighting another country over money, oil, blood, or perhaps even religion as Mia pointed out. 

I just searched on google for "the future of europe" and found this website about how the European Union is going to commit suicide because the union CANNOT find common identity- which i find totally true: they've tried numerous times such as with the League of Nations- but these things fail. Nationalism of the individual nation usually outweighs the nationalism of a continent. I mean it's not like Canada, Mexico, and the USA are best friends with one common identity. It's too hard to find this common identity when each country is so freaking different! The website also claims that in the European Union there is a decline in population which "is a pretext to massive migration." Also that there is a huge amount of unemployment and bad governance. Now this is just an opinion- but i mean: Europe doesn't exactly look like it's on the best path right now, but neither is the United States of America.  I have no idea what the world will look like in 50 years or which country will be on the top. Will it still be the USA? who knows? What will we be fighting about then- still oil? still religion? still money? still boundaries? still blood? my guess is- we will find something to fight about!