I am meeting with my possible future history committee member to look over my current history content, I'll have the notes and details posted from our meeting on Monday morning immediately after our meeting. I'm excited to get an additional point of view on European contemporary history, I look forward to the further insight into my project.
I will post notes this coming Monday morning.
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Thanks for the update, Jared. Hope the meeting goes well and I'll look forward to your subsequent post.
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In my husbands, very generalized opinion, arguing a thesis about the probability or likely hood of money serving as a unifying force in any national/international scenario flies directly in the face of 6500 years of recorded history. Money has never been, nor will it ever be, enough of a reason for any two (or more) disparate peoples, cultures, or currencies to come together in a place of harmony where no such harmony has previously existed. Rather, money is far more likely to serve as the focal point for hostilities wherein the currency (the Euro for example) and the policies of the European Central Bank (ECB)will be consistently manipulated by the larger, more economically independent member nations, sparking anger in the smaller nations at their lack of constructive influence in the ECB and the Euro, as well as resentment in the populations of the larger states as they are forced to carry more of the international load on behalf of weaker states often traditionally seen as non-sympathetic if not outright hostile. In this way we see that money will not serve as a unifying force but rather as a wedge that is far likelier to further divide the European continent, rather than unite it. Viewed from this perspective it is unlikely that either the ECB or the heads of the European states will be able to exert enough internal or international influence to bring about a movement strong enough to coalesce all of the independent states into a single unified body. The best that can be hoped for is a framework which establishes a more complete and stable understanding of international pressures, one that fosters a spirit of cooperation based on a mutually beneficial financial arrangement that can allow the peoples of each state to overlook their traditional prejudices long enough for everyone to make some money.
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