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Utopia?…It’s a load of bollocks.
One persons Utopia, is another persons Brexit…
- This was first published on the Pileus website in 2017. It has been slightly updated to reflect what has happened since*
The world seems to be an increasingly binary place, perhaps more so than any time since the late 1970’s, when Thatcher, swiftly followed by Reagan and then every other nation, unleashed the turbo charged work of the Chicago economists upon the world…Neo-Liberalism
Brexiteers told us that their Utopian vision was the CORRECT one and rested with the UK throwing off the shackles of the EU to float around the seven seas aboard HMS Britannia, in free trade festival of sovereignty.
Remainers, told us our future is ONLY assured if we stayed in the club and collaborated to protect us from an increasingly splintered and global world.
Both feel passionately that their world-view, and Utopian vision is correct. You can argue Brexit is an option of bravery, whilst Remain is one of fear (“better the devil you know”)
Unfortunately, belief does tend to blind one to the truths of others. The more thoughtful amongst us are probably still scratching our heads, trying to make sense of it all.
