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comment by edricarica
edricarica  ·  2860 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brexit looks likely.

Thank-you for this thoughtful comment.

I write this from (stunned, appalled, embarrassed) London, where all around seems apocalyptic.

I hope you're right - that we can begin to organise our society not on the basis of the Bretton Woods institutions (that were great for rebuilding a post-WW2 world, but may be no longer relevant to our generation) of states interacting with one another, but on some system of direct economic exchange between and political participation of individual citizens.

I hope that can happen.

What worries me is that no-one is proposing anything. It was a vote against, not a vote for.

And now we have no Prime Minister, even: no direction, no leader.

But your comment gives me hope. Change is needed, better systems are needed, and I suppose a bit of chaos is inevitable in the grander process.