You know, I just saw the great keynote from Ruth and realized that I could never give such a speech.
And it wasn't the language barrier. This talk was heart warming, inspirational and somehow lacked content. Like in church.
You guys have a knack for sermons which goes against my nature. (Maybe because of anti-clerical traditions and restrictions in Europe after all those confessional wars.)
At the same time the level of extreme black&white simplistic rhetoric in US politics and society is frightening.
I was in Florida° for the 2016 YAPC - i.e. pre-Trump - and experienced it first-hand. (I could repeat stark slogans from both sides)
But maybe it's just the internet, this new church which will also radicalize Europe, and I'm just arrogant and delusional.
°) OTOH I liked New York a lot. |