Central Europe or Eureka?
One of the problems of writing columns is that the old ones come back to haunt you. An opinion once righteously held changes over time and circumstance, but essays since Montaigne have been more about locating truth than assembling facts. Truth is tough to find and as I get older I settle more and more for provoking discussion, trying to get a dialogue going that's somewhat out of the box.
Here in Europe and particularly ex-communist Europe, where I live, I've been struck by the damage done to young minds by a general dumbing down and skewing of the facts of history. The past thirteen years of 'freedom' has been a cold splash of water in the face as western influence creeps (and sometimes gallops) into the fabric of society and there's not all that much change to show for it. In Europe or Eureka, the differences bind our similarities.
Where is truth? It was supposed to come with the falling of the wall and what has come in its place is just a different brand of educational management, s…