I am grateful for eurotrib. I am grateful that it is up and running after all these years with the tacit agreement of its correspondents to hear out to the extent common courtesy allows for all their idiosyncrasies.

I have, of course, "tried out" a few other internet exchanges(English-language domains)and am sad to confirm, for all the lip-service paid to transparency and "marginalized voices", actual tolerance for that is dissipating apace.

Apart from generalized paranoia attributable to the GWOT  and increasingly arcane "troll" defenses, I'm left to wonder if curiosity and indeed conversation are a lost skills.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.