A friend recently sent me a video to the Gotthard Tunnel opening ceremony in Switzerland that took place on June 1, 2016. The world's largest tunnel, it took 17 years to complete and promises a new era of state managed European and global connectedness. As such, European heads of state such as France's Hollande, and Germany's Merkel as well as cronies of capital and finance were on hand to take the virgin tunnel voyage and celebrate its completion.
An innocuous ribbon cutting ceremony for an impressive engineering feat. Maybe this story could be a light change of pace. Imagine my face, then, when I discovered that the 9 million dollar opening ceremony was filled with paganistic rituals of pre-Christian Old Europe. Rapturously applauded by standing global bureaucrats and prime ministers, the ghastly production was an unintended self-parody on statist culture.
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