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.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) OTOH I liked New York a lot.

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