The Economist's take on Brexit · 11:20pm Jul 1st, 2017
WRITING to his wife in May 1942, Evelyn Waugh recounted a true story of military derring-do. A British commando unit offered to blow up an old tree-stump on Lord Glasgow’s estate, promising him that they could dynamite the tree so that it “falls on a sixpence”. After a boozy lunch they all went down to witness the explosion. But instead of falling on a sixpence the tree-stump rose 50 feet in the air, taking with it half an acre of soil and a beloved plantation of young trees. A tearful Lord Glasgow fled to his castle only to discover that every pane of glass had been shattered. He then ran to his lavatory to hide his emotions, but when he pulled the plug out of his washbasin “the entire ceiling, loosened by the explosion, fell on his head.”
A year on from the Brexit referendum Britain feels like Lord Glasgow’s castle...
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Meanwhile, in Canada...
Rain. Just, rain. Lots of it, too.
Luckily (or not), over on our side of the pond, we've had our own "Hold my beer and watch this" moment.
Dont forget though, if you analyze things using phase transition chaos functions, if we hadnt got Brexit now, with all the little bits breaking, then in 20 years time we would be looking at a self catalyzing catatrophic collapse.
TL:DR We dynamited the avalanche and it was a bit bigger than expected.
In 20 years time there wont be an intellectual realm left that a handheld computational device wont be able to totally crush a human at, for effectively zero cost. And thats being generous.
It should be currently.
Look, whatever your life is like, Donald Trump isn't your leader. It could be worse.
Heck, the Master wasn't even worse...
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At least he isn't Rodrigo Duterte.
yet
I am into electoral mathematics. All of us electoral mathematicians laughed at Briton tearing itself apart on a vote with a simple majority. You should not do something so rash without at least ⅔+1 vote.