Is Europe Turning Its Back on Western Values? | Victor Davis Hanson

Europeans are becoming very different people than we are on so many issues. They're not Western in their way of thinking. They've repudiated the Judeo-Christian ethos. It shows in their productivity. We've increased productivity, I think, the last 15 years by some staggering 35, 40 percent, maybe higher, and they only did like 12. Economically, they're slipping badly. Every single barometer, cultural influence, movie income, popular music income internationally. It's just all the U.S. and our system, whether you like it or not, creates more goods and services and opportunity and freedom and prosperity than theirs and more security. We're going to have a real come-to-our-deity moment because we're going to have to tell them that I don't even know if you guys are Western anymore. I agree, Victor. You know, growing up, we were reading these history books about the sick man of Europe, which I think was Turkey, right? Yeah. But the sick man of Europe is Europe. Europe, yeah.