The conflicts and contradictions of the European Union are explained, in particular the manner in which its monetary policy breaks the treaties of the Union. Populists and nationalist reactions in the "north" are explained in this context. The episode ends with a poem by W.B.Yeats The Second Coming:
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Part B will follow in the next episode which examines the centripetal and centrifugal forces acting on the EU government and the member states. It will examine the idea that contrary to the centralising tendency of the EU government it might be that the abandoning of the Euro (and therefore the currency union) is the only way of saving the European Union.
References:
1.The Bitcoin Standard (2018) by Saifdean Ammous. especially chapters 4-7;
2. The blog of Tuomas Malinen on the www.gnseconomics.com website; also youtube videos;
3. Fredrick Hayek’s classic 1944 book: The Road to Serfdom.
S2 Ep96. The Origins of Evil Part 3. The destructiveness in the human psyche.
S2 Ep95. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 9. Climate tipping point reached. Red alert.
S2 Ep94. The Ecological Catastrophe Part 8.The green climate agenda is in reverse.
S2 Ep93.The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 7. Psychiatric diagnosis of business civilization.
S2 Ep92. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 6. Too little, too late.
S2 Ep91. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 5. Cop 28 shows a world unable to avoid climate catastrophe
S2 Ep90. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 4. Prepare for survival in a degraded world
S2 Ep89.The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 3. The wider elements of the ecological crisis aside from climate
S2 Ep89. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 3 - to be published October 1st 2023
S3 Ep37. Últimas visiones y pensamiento de Carl Jung. Spanish Language.
S2 Ep88. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 2. Climate change - one of the most powerful influences in human history.
S2 Ep87. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 1. The rise in Green House Gas emissions and the impact on global warming
S3 Ep36. El símbolo de Cristo - interpretación de Jung
S2 Ep86. The Light of Higher Consciousness
S3 Ep35. Jung y El Libro Tibetano de Los Muertos
S2 Ep85. Origins of Evil. Part 2
S3 Ep34 Elementos básicos de la enseñanza budista y la metafísica tibetana. Spanish Language Series
S2 Ep84. Origins of Evil. Part 1
S2 Ep83. Tibetan Buddhism. Light in the Darkness.
S3 Ep33. Jung y El Libro Tibetano de la Gran Liberación. Spanish Language Series
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