Hollywood, supermarkets, minicomputers, and remote work have transformed a world sick with a crumbling old age of Europe (Nazism, racism, classism, ) into an open and modern world: it is a formidable positive fact, since the end of the Second World War that we have been living in an American world.

The opening to large-scale consumption, which never existed; the birth of the middle class, was not only unknown, but unthinkable everywhere; the space age, born not to lose the bet against Sputnik with the USSR and then overwhelmingly won; the era of global inert communication via computers, cell phones, satellites and the Internet, and now the Artificial Intelligence, all indicate that the planet is now modeled on American society for better and sometimes for worse. The shows produced by Hollywood are another exceptional cultural contribution to the world, often underestimated, but “Cinema” is the wonderful direct heir of Greek theater with a planetary audience. Personally, I will never tire of saying that one of the reasons for the collapse of the USSR was the inability to create its own Hollywood.

But if the planetary development model is American, Europe has its own immense merits, philosophy, art, culture. The East has the most millenary schools of knowledge, unattainable and perhaps unreachable forever. Vedas (the only sacred books that are called knowledge), Upanishads, Buddhism, tao, are authentic polar stars for........

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