BREXIT – is that actually the real topic – COMMEDIA DELLA VITA OR PÁNTA RÊI'S FIRM GROUND

I was just approached by Yang Yuhan, asking for my opinion on the results in the UK.

I mentioned in a brief note some of the problems, e.g. that the result may be just the date of preparing a new referendum (as it happened so often), that the claimed economic strength by the “leavers” may be just another illusion but also that it is a strategy of one country to look for advantage on the back of others.

And then I said, “as it had been the case with (in particular) the German-Greek relationship.

As Yang said she would not know about Germany-Greece-relationships

I answered in a nutshell – more is barely possible via QQ:

Perhaps we meet at some stage again, and we can chat. Too much to write …: Germany forced Greece to take loans, knowing that they would not be able to repay. Germany also kept the economy of Greece down, not allowing them to develop – we talked about world-systems, center-periphery etc. in the workshop. After a while the Germans said: now you have to return the money. And because you cannot do it “easily”, we dictate the conditions under which you do it. In consequnece, for instance, the social security systems had been dismantled (people getting 60 % of the retirement they expected, and it must in many cases serve the entire family; the health system is deteriorating; children cannot go to school, or they cannot concentrate because they are hungry …), the ariports had been “bought” by the German FRAPORT (Frankfurt airport), without proper pay …

Of course, the Germans could rely o their “European supporters” and the IMF and the World Bank but still they had been the main drivers.

And I directed her to things I wrote earlier – about Two Dreams and One Nightmare, there looking in particular at the second dream. Indeed, many things had been not known to the public, they had been veiled in populist disguises, hiding the

New Princedoms.

And so we may even take up on people like Churchill who said, in a different context:

This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

And as Henry added in the mail he sent a few minutes ago:

the beginning of the complete disintegration of the EU….

Cunning of unreason – including the unreason of populist movements back in the other home? There was one star in Bethlehem, now there are five in Rome …

Just received another mail . actually taking up on the point I alluded to in the blog entry:

“The triumph of malign populism and a betrayal of the younger generation.”

Yes, there had been some betrayal, and my generation is guilty, if not directly betraying, allowing those others they dirty business …

Seeing all this in a wider context, I just feel miserable, actually since a couple of days already, the BREXIT is only a small part. It is about “us” – the elderly, the Europeans, the “better Europeans” … all these … “superiors” who claim to know everything and know everything better, and in which way ever, it is differ difficult to “escape”, difficult to remain sane and honest, and the only thing ome can do is to talk to some students, encouraging them …, to do what we cannot do anymore to the extent to which we want: move on and be honest …. – but also considered, not following the populist tendencies that lurk around everywhere, making education to a fun-park.