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.
S3 Ep2. Las Crisis de Nuestro Tiempo. El Acercamiento de la Tormenta. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep 32. The Crisis of our Times. Part 6. Civilizational Eclipse, Human Extinction, and Hope?
S2 Ep 31. The Crises of our Times. Part 5. The Economic and Spiritual Crisis
S3 Ep1. Las Crisis de Nuestro Tiempo. El Momento de la Verdad. Spanish Language Podcast
S2 Ep 30. The Crisis of our Times. Part 4. Homo Demonicus
S2 Ep 29. The Crisis of our Times. Part 3. De Profundis (Out of the Depths)
S2 Ep28. The Crisis of our Times. Part 2. The Moment of Truth
S2 Ep 27. The Crisis of our Times. Part 1. Economic and Financial Crisis
S2 Ep 26. Spiritual Hero. Part 5. The changing image of Christ
S2 Ep 25. Spiritual Hero Part 4. The Risen Christ?
S2 Ep 24. Spiritual Hero. Part 3. Christ. Who do they say that I am?
S2 Ep 23. Spiritual Hero. Part 2. Evidence for Jesus Christ
S2 Ep 22. The Spiritual Hero Myth. Part 1
S2 Ep 21. Beethoven. Part 3. Rebirth
S2 Ep 20. Beethoven. Part 2. Death and resurrection.
S2 Ep 19. Beethoven 3rd symphony. Part 1. Battle and triumph.
S2 Ep 18. Gnosticism for our time?
S2 Ep 17. The Fall of Sophia and the Division of the Dark and the Light
S2 Ep 16. The Gnostics and the Call
S2 Ep 15. Gnosticism & Jungian Psychology
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