The arguments and narratives on EU don't really make much sense. Not
that deeply entrenched sides do not have self-coherent dogmas, they do.
But it all just doesn't make sense. There is a total disconnect between
them and between them and reality, it seems. Immigration, sovereignty,
neoliberalism, nationalism, etc. etc. ad nauseam, barren and fruitless
drivel goes on and on. Especially in GB (why anyone cares so much what
happens to the irrelevant inbred island is a separate topic) -
intelligent people have to admit that they don't have a clue what
Brexit-no-Brexit discourse is about. Not that it will prevent anyone to
contributing.
Maybe, then, the real issue is completely different, and present
discourses and narratives are simply psychotic avoidance of confronting it.
EU is really another attempt at communism.
Communism appears to be genetically attractive to large swaths of
population, so it does come up and will continue to be coming up, one
way or another. It's like when you are constipated - it *will* come out
sooner or later, and you know it. The question is how much are you going
to pretend and suffer in the meantime.
The first attempt, USSR, failed for known reasons. It did work in the
beginning though. The same happened to EU. The really existing communism
appears to be perishable matter.
The neurotic need to brand it as something else in the case of EU didn't
change much, if anything. The pattern is unmistakeable: wide initial
support from working class masses and honest intelligentsia, belief in
transnational unity and rosy future, followed by corruption of officials
and apparatchik system of government. In the post-mortem phase,
flourishing of 'analysis' and bickering about the exact way the decay
should proceed.
So don't be sorry about EU. Hopefully we learned something, and the next
time it will be better. It *will* come out, again.
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