News has hit the wire that Canada, in a fit of cultural desperation, will join Eurovision in 2027. The reaction across the Atlantic has been a mix of bemusement and annoyance, as if a latecomer to a dinner party has demanded a hot meal and a speech. This is not a triumph of multiculturalism.
It is a symptom of a deepening cultural decadence, where nations mistake spectacle for substance. Canada wants to purchase a place in Europe's silly song contest because it cannot cultivate a serious culture of its own. It is a nation whose entire identity is negative: we are not Americans.
Now they wish to be something else, but they do not know what. This is the same country that gave us Justin Bieber and Celine Dion: commercial products, not artists. Eurovision itself has long since ceased to be about music; it is a political pageant, a festival of kitsch and diplomacy.
Canada's entry will be as hollow as its national psyche. The BBC should be ashamed to broadcast this circus, but it will, because the Elites love any excuse to parade their pieties. Meanwhile, the rest of us watch our cultural heritage squandered for a bowl of poutine and a maple leaf flag on a tacky stage.
The Fall of Rome began with such trivialities. Mark my words: this is not a union of peoples. It is a racket.
