That’s part of the point of the EU. If you’re from Brittany, for instance, you don’t have to be primarily French anymore. You can, if you wish, forge closer cultural economic and social ties with your “celtic fringe” brethren in the UK and Ireland. If you wish.
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Yep, and I think this is a wonderful thing! I’m sure nation states were an improvement on preceding modes of organisation, but they were still fucking bollocks.
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That being said, we need a viable alternative before we get rid of the old structures, yeah?
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I trust no revolutionaries, only reformers for that reason.
“It can’t possibly be worse than what we already have”, eh?
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I mean, as long as it’s not ideologically driven to some sort of purity or exploited like it was in the 20th?
Also, Now I kind of want to start a games thread where the entire conversation has to be in animated gifs.
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I think ideological purity is usually driven by a failure of understanding - philosophies are frameworks, not formulas. Attempting to apply political philosophies in a formulaic fashion leads to a rift between reality as it is, and expectations. Generally the next stage is denial. This can be observed very clearly in the Libertarian movement. The philosophy in its basic form assumes no negative externalities, so true believers rapidly become climate change denialists because the alternative is to accept that their ideology (at least, the way they have interpreted it) doesn’t add up. Given that the basic premise of freely-entered contractual agreements fails to recognize the fact that wage labourers cannot subsist without entering into such an agreement (while the employer has no such pressing threat), I’m surprised that no Libertarian has attempted to deny the existence of death…yet.
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