Friendship does not depend on nationality, language nor race but it also does not depend on forcibly making people accept multicultural directives from small internal cliques and larger external forces. The differences celebrated by post-modernists and their mostly uneducated disciples seems to ignore differences in culture and nation unless of course if it is marginalised groups where they seek to rebalance the power relationship to the detriment of the imaginary “establishment”. However, we are passing the era of increasing individual and marginalised rights and we are likely to see more progress towards community and national rights. Already we are witnessing concrete progress being made in Holland, France, Germany and the increasingly victimised Russia. More broadly we are also seeing renewed interest in the European heartland in figures like Holderlin. The poet of dwelling and Being. The poet that allows us to live when the Gods have gone. This is an important sign.

Belonging to a community sharing common symbols, songs, texts is a basic human need and if we ignore it we are being less human.