“Take up the White Man’s burden—/ Send forth the best ye breed—/Go bind your sons to exile/To serve your captives’ need;/To wait in heavy harness/On fluttered folk and wild—/Your new-caught sullen peoples,/Half devil and half child.”
—“The White Man’s Burden,” Rudyard Kipling, 1899.
What universe European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell lives in is an open question, but it certainly is not the same one as most of humanity, including most Europeans, who, country after country, are taking to the streets by the tens of thousands to demand policies which allow them to live. Take Borrell’s instructions on Oct. 13 to the first class attending the pilot project in Bruges, France, for an “European Diplomatic Academy'':
“Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works [sic]. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that humankind has been able to build.... Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade the garden…. Because the jungle has a strong growth capacity, and the wall will never be high enough in order to protect the garden. The gardeners have to go to the jungle.” (https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/european-diplomatic-academy-opening-remarks-high-representative-josep-borrell-inauguration_en)
