I have often joked that Europeans are rather sad because the highlight of European society was 1914.
Unfortunately, my observation is tragically accurate as Europe grows to hate Jews more with the addition of their new Islamic citizens.
Europe in 1914 was on a straight trajectory toward more and better art, music, theater, technology and cultural vitality. Europeans were happy, integrated and productive. Jews were in the mainstream of Northern European society.
That came to an abrupt end and Europe has never recovered.
Europe became a group of nations filled with mutual hate and recriminations, failed governments, and a people with no future after WWII. Because they had no future they gave themselves governments that did nothing innovative and redistributed the commercial and national assets to the State. The hereditary elite of the society was held responsible for the 20 year interwar disaster but nothing was done to effectively interrupt the hereditary mechanism. Europe has remained a class-based society with a strong anti-commerce bias.
Today's Europe is not nearly as bad as it might be if America weren’t available to provide it with radical improvements in healthcare and medicine and the perpetual stimulus of new technology and innovation that American corporations deliver to the world, Europe included. What little that is positive in Europe, the deadend European's owe to America and Israel.