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 Ep46. Overview of Series. The Crisis of our Times. Part 19.
S3 Ep8. Carl Jung: El viaje interior de Jung: la Lucha por el Self. Parte C. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep45. Spiritual Transformation, Taoist Philosophy and a Poem
S2 Ep44. Part 18. Consciousness, Capitalism, and Death Potential. The Crisis of our Times.
S3 Ep7. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte B. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep43. The Crisis of our Times. Part 17. Consciousness, Capitalism and Modernity. Part B
S2 Ep42. The Crisis of our Times. Part 16. Consciousness, Capitalism and Modernity. Part A
S2 Ep41. The Crisis of our Times. Part 15. The Creative Destructive Nature of Capitalism
S3 Ep6. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte A. Spanish Language Podcast:
S2 Ep40. The Crisis of our Times. Part 14. The European Union: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Part C
S2 Ep39. The Crisis of our Times. Part 13. The European Union: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Part B
S3 Ep5. Carl Jung: Recuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos. Su Torre y Viajes. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep37. The Crisis of our Times. Part 11. Capitalism and the Soul
S3 Ep4. Carl Jung: Recuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep36. The Crisis of our Times. Part 10. World Crisis and the Search for Soul
S2 Ep35. The Crisis of our Times. Part 9. Capitalism and Changing Consciousness
S3 Ep3. Las Crises de Nuestro Tiempo. La Pandemia en America Latina. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep 34. The Crisis of our Times. Part 8. The Wake-up Call
S2 Ep 33. The Crisis of our Times. Part 7. The Ten Horseman of the Apocalypse
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