What does Sarkozy imagine the French or European peasant was busy doing over the passage of millenia? When one Euro scientist was dreaming of this or another painting that, the peasant ie the other 99.9999% of euro people were still in the field. When for example, Brunel was building his great engineering works (off the back of slavery money) and sculpting the landscape very proudly... euro children were shoved up chimneys to choke and die early unenducated stink filled deaths, girls worked to the bone 18 hours a day in mills and sweatshops and gangs of peasants roamed around in the gutter like trash.

Going back to the slavery money thing I don't throw that in for a facetious point. Slavery money built and funded europe to such a massive extent the industrial revolution would not have been possible without it. From where did the money for all the big schemes come from. We are told that steam wagons were invented and then shown a map a few years later with rail networks scribbled all over a landscape. Does the unthinking fool imagine that was funded with pretend money or France was magically rich? Insurance houses gave loans to such builders and schemers with the profits from their main business, slavery. Cotton, Sugar, Tea and so on fulled Britain, France and Spain and slavery funded everything. The big country houses, the fantastic bridges, the road networks (excepting Germany who used Jewish slaves directly there)... EVERYTHING was built on the brutality of the savage average euros capacity for the most heinous of crimes. Brilliant legacy

His comment being limited to peasants is spot on because PEASANTS generally spent and spend millenia grubbing about in the dirt without change for that has globally been the role of peasants.

I'm reminded of Will Smith telling a robot why it isn't equal to a human in the movie irobot. "Can a robot take a canvas and create a masterpiece? Can a robot create great scores of music? etc"... The robot's classic answer "can you?"

Does Sarkozy himself even understand the basic science and technology that undermines much of the modern world that he takes credit with his race for? I doubt it. Scientists themselves are rarely so stupid lol. And not only can an abstract concept like "science" not be the property of any individual or race but the collective knowledge of scientists anywhere is an ongoing process interdependent of many origins and cultures. No culture in isolation fully developed any science itself. Each drew on not only it's neighbours but it's predecessors.

Sarkozy is probably imagining and group of brilliant clever euros collectively and purposefully designing and working themselves alone into the situation of today. What is amusing is that even today in so called modern world I doubt 1% of euros could understand the basic concepts that go into much of the technology around them. This in a world where everybody has books and education is mandatory. What does that frog imagine euros were like a few 100 years ago. 50 years ago?

The irony is the French is still a nation of peasant farmers. Oh highly subsidized and spoilt with ridicolous protectionism and strikes every year but aside from that hmpf! Let his magically enlightened farmers compete fairly with farmers globally, let all euro farmers DARE to attempt this without their militia and governements forcing an unfair playing field and let us see how great they truly are.

Finally I'm not sure what science and technology Sarkozy expected people fighting wars against oppressive barbaric colonisers and enslavers to be busy constructing when all around them was being pulled down and taken away back to "civilization".

Now for that art... Most of what euros define today as "civilisation" refers to arts that they themselves set limits on and decide is "classical" This then is an arbitary cultural xenophobic description with little objective or even subjective merit since it encompasses all and conveys an essence of percieved superiority without even needing to be compared to anything else. Without looking at a sculpture, painting, carving from ANYWHERE whites decide theirs is classical masterpiece (relative to them) and hence a standard bearer of "civilsation". This then has no basis in reality and worries me not.


All that said it is true that too many black intellectuals today spend far to much time navel gazing and looking backwards and not enough planning, scheming or dreaming.