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 Ep58. Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 1. Collective and individual dimensions of this crisis
S3 Ep16 Gnosticismo: una fuerza viviente en nuestro tiempo. Parte E. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep57. Contemporary views on the economic, financial, pandemic, and climatic crises
S3 Ep15. La Psicología Analítica y su deuda a Gnosticismo. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte D. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep56. Technology as system of creation and destruction. The Crisis of our Times. Part 29. Technology and Consciousness. Part F.
S2 Ep55. The Transhumanist Agenda. The Crisis of our Times. Part 28. Technology and Consciousness. Part E.
S3 Ep14. La gran relevancia del gnosticismo en la psicología junguiana. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte C. Spanish Language Podcast.
S2 Ep54. Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Jung‘s view of technology. The Crisis of our Times. Part 27. Technology and Consciousness. Part D.
S3 Ep13. Los Siete Semones a los Muertos. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte B. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep53. The thoughts of two major thinkers - McLuhan and Mcgilchrist. The Crisis of our Times. Part 26. Technology and Consciousness. Part C.
S2 Ep 52. The role of evolution and historical change. The Crisis of our Times. Part 25. Technology and Consciousness. Part B.
S3 Ep12. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte A. Spanish Language Podcast.
S2 Ep51.Deep history and our entwinement with technology. The Crisis of our Times. Part 24. Technology and Consciousness. Part A.
S2 Ep50. The Financial Crisis part B. The Crisis of our Times. Part 23.
S3 Ep11. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte F. Spanish Language Podcast.
S2 Ep49. The Financial Crisis part A. The Crisis of our Times. Part 22.
S3 Ep10. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte E. Spanish Language Podcast.
S2 Ep48. The long pause. The Crisis of our Times. Part 21.
S2 Ep47. Decline of Civilization and the Pandemic. The Crisis of our Times. Part 20.
S3 Ep9. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte D. Spanish Language Podcast.
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