Thoughts on the Sociology of Brexit
Impossible to get down to four paragraphs on this one, so here are the headings/key points:
The geography reflects the economic crisis of the 1970s, not the 2010s
Handouts dont produce gratitude
Brexit was not fuelled by a vision of the future
We now live in the age of data, not facts
The least enslaved nation in the EU just threw off its shackles
http://www.perc.org.uk/project_posts/thoughts-on-the-sociology-of-brexit/
840high
(17,196 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)thanks for the synopsis!
Denzil_DC
(7,257 posts)I don't agree with everything in it (not that that matters ...), but it has some interesting insights.
The things I disagree about are fairly trivial. For instance, I agree that we and comedy shows don't help anything by coming across as sneering and striking down at people who have little or no political power, but I don't agree that we shouldn't strike up at pompous politicians and movers and groovers. And one of the figures he feels we shouldn't do this to - the odious Nigel Farage - has just resigned from UKIP after claiming credit for all this chaos, so deserves all he's got coming!
BlueMTexpat
(15,373 posts)that the "pompous politicians and movers and groovers" should get the oral and written shellacking they so deserve. Every. Single. One.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)I call them factoids.
Todays_Illusion
(1,209 posts)The propaganda and spin creators want to blame racism, I think it is economic and political.