The media and pundits had framed the debate as some sort of proxy war on immigration, free trade and the tolerance of so-called progressive societies. But these issues are just symptoms of a much larger malaise; the tyrannical nature of big organizations. They can’t work or prosper for long because their scale is inhuman, abusive and wrong.
In this context it may be argued that overwhelming evidence from science, culture and biology all pointed to one overwhelming truth that things improve with an unending process of division.The breakdown ensured that nothing ever got too big for its own britches or too unmanageable or unaccountable. Small things simply worked best. The problem with bigness lies in the law of diminishing returns and sensitivity. The bigger a government or market or corporation got, the less sensitive it became to matters of the neighborhood. In the end bigness, just like any empire, concentrated power and delivered misery, corruption and waste.
And that’s the problem today with the European Union, big corporations, large governments and a long parade of big trade pacts. In the global labyrinth of bigness, the EU has become another symbol of oversized ineptness along with a technological deafness that ignores locality, human temperament, culture, ecology, tradition, democracy and diversity. It can no longer manage its own currency, let alone economic stagnation.
It can’t solve the debt of Italy and Greece or address the flood of migrants from North Africa. One bungled decision after another has inflamed political communities of the left and right throughout Europe.
There is nothing about freedom, solidarity or friendship in the European Union.The European Union has proven to act on behalf of the interest of banks, multi-national enterprises and groups in the shadow, as advised by professional think-tanks and lobbyists and not in favour of its people. In fact, the EU is an economic union with a common market, without internal borders, which enables a free circulation of money, goods and people/workforce in an ongoing process to harmonize business standards. It is designed as a cartel and typically, there is a lack of democratic structures and processes which becomes a disturbing factor. The root of most evil lies in big government and big institutions.
If a society grows beyond its optimum size, its problems must eventually outrun the growth of those human faculties which are necessary for dealing with them. Scale, however, does not seem to be an issue modern politicians understand, let alone contemplate. In fact, the typical political response to almost every problem today is to somehow make it bigger so more technocrats can make it impossible to resolve.
Bigness has failed the world, and it has failed Europe. Now is the time to say no to all of its manifestations. Brexit is just the beginning and despite the high pitch propaganda espoused by world leaders for Britan to remain in the EU, it has got the backlash from the citizens of UK who mean business and this has been a major setback for the US.
