“Europe has forgotten one of the most fundamental lessons of its own past: Either you shape history—or history shapes you. This has seduced European citizens, intellectuals and political leaders into vastly underestimating the price of relative decline.
Over the last few decades, Europeans have—slowly, reluctantly and incompletely—come to recognize that they are playing a smaller and smaller role in world affairs. The most important technological innovations are happening elsewhere. Economic growth is concentrated in Asia and North America. Even the center of gravity for culture and fashion is steadily shifting away from the continent.”
*This was originally posted on Andras Baneth's LinkedIn account.