Isnt it true? Be honest whats wrong with what i wrote? Is there any other region in the world with better life standards than Europe?
Fine by them, at the mean time they enjoy the fact that Europe is the climax of human civilisation with proper working state aparatus, highest life expectancy, real democracy, low corruption, leader in technology and science, freedom of independent press and individual thinking, etc. etc.
The reason why Europe is what it is today while it could be much but leaving that chapter out, starting post ww2, Usa invested in Europe to be what it is to be a Western Front against Communism. you are saying the EU is at the climax of human civilization I dunno how it works out in Switzerland but Health care in Holland at least suffers from low quality personal which are delaying serious symptoms and have long lines for surgery to such an extend that native dutch people are looking treatment else, one of the reason medical tourism is big in Turkiye.
Nation state democracy even though it seems fair, it does not hold real value since all the important decisions are made in the European Parliament which the committee itself are weird organization which the peoples of Europe cant remove them from power. But this is an EU thing so it doesn't count for Switzerland or Norway.
Low corruption. This is one hell of laughter, most of the people here in Holland (leaving out the opinion of foreigners). Dutch know their government is corrupt and that tax payers money is wasted, but they don't bother much on it as long as their way of live if maintained aka. European Traditionalism in this era's form.
Leader in technology and science, I have to say they have dedicated people who are researching science and new technology. But thats because universities are mainly focused on breeding new scientists to increase the Quantity of papers and researchers and not the Quality. Quality research are done within private companies as far as we can observe and because of this attitude of them Universities the quality of education is going down the drain which both the government and high profile newspapers say, but it is something they cant change because the people are ideologically grown this way.
Freedom of press is something you boast about Europe. All major newspapers are mostly owned by 1 holding, company and all write the same thing. there is not really a big independent newspaper. So there is not something to challenge the freedom of speech in Europe. For example this year there were some riots on Germany with police brutality and iirc the only mention about this was at some tabloid newspaper with only a really small section while all the other major newspapers ignored that entire matter. Its freedom of speech in the end, you can't really call it censorship when all the major newspapers which owned by the same company decides not to write about it.
Individual thinking. Does it even really matter. No one in Europe cares about a certain ideology. Unless you can call "if the world burns or is in peace I don't care as long as I get paid and can do my usual routine" an Ideology, the question do they think for themselves ?, yeah I have come across many dutch who know stuff ain't right and isn't what it looks like and talk about it private. But they think its a big to hassle to be bothered it and don't have any problem with how things are how they are now as long they can keep doing what they want.
If your life standard means being able to live your life as a cog in a machine which is called the nation. knowing a lot of subjects are wrong but can't be bothered to fix it and thus having these politicians do some backhand deals for their own benefits and attacking other nations with their media and government statements to feel good about themselves. then yeah you will hardly find a nation with a better life standard.
What I wrote here applies for spearhead of the EU. you may disagree, things in Switzerland maybe entirely different, But these are the observations by people who are critical about the nation for the good of the nation.
Everything can sound great when putting it into limited context.
