Being social
animals we are susceptible to experience reality from the same premise as the members
of the group we are identified with. This group can be football club fans or a nation.
Deep down the principle is the same and it forms a key aspect of social
constructivism. The complex mechanism based on narratization that moves the
societies.
Unfortunately,
it is so much easier to mobilize people to destroy than to create something new
and better. Brexit is just a recent proof of this failure of the human
character so easily moldable by skillful myth-makers who know very well that most
of the human beings would rather choose a promise of a false order over an adventurous
change, although the change would bring progress.
Among many
truths the Brexit myth-makers haven’t shared with their followers is that the
history is dead. We have reached a point where what we were or what we believe
to know about the past has almost insignificant relevance for predicting the
future. The Empire, which grow from the misery of other nations, is nothing but
a tail to keep in a box together with Ivanhoe, Arthur, Marlin or Mogley. But,
not a single one of the Brexit leaders will get it place in the box. They will
fade away. The time will erase them together with other gray-suited souls that build
their ambitious political careers on destroying Europe.
On the
other hand, the time will erase all those European technocrats whose lack of
vision and inspiration has converted Europe in a supermarket. Those insipid shadows
whose lack of perspective, generosity and spirit feeds the populist narratives
that pretend to use Brexit as a plot.
It is true
that the long gone Empire’s myth has a solid narrative base to be exported outside
the UK borders by the recently formed Brexit government . But Europe is
greater than all of them and it will rise stronger and stronger with
generations of European’ born. Generations who feel, act and think as European,
proud of the past, but aware of the false premises and promises that led us to repeat wars and destruction.
Generations born with the equation:
+ Europe =
- nationalism
It is my
dream. You can make it real.
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