Does the proposed EU constitution say anything about the EU Anthem?
We agreed that the use of “Brothers” in Schiller’s “Hymn to Joy” is sexist, but I was amazed, indeed staggered by Cameron Sawyer’s comments. He has in the past belittled Western European except as a big museum, and I suspect that this view, combined with his vocal Russophoilia, explains his comments, with which I strongly disagree. He writes: Yes, but alle Menschen werden Geschwister doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, morever, the idea of Bruederschaft, brotherhood, meaning in German as in English more than just the relationship between brother and brother, is lost. Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” is as banal and trite and vacuously sentimental as any pop song of Michael Jackson, probably more so. It is a real piece of doggerel. Beethoven’s modification is even worse. How is it that the greatest musician of all time, possibly the greatest creative artist of all time, arguably the most sublime human spirit of all time, could have such bad taste in poetry? Genius in one area often coexists
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