Seeing some of the things BBC posts makes me wonder if I'm fighting against time/a losing battle. According to several reports, seems like the "more educated" and generally younger crowd of Briains want to stay, but also were too lazy to show up at the polls.
But this got me thinking something, and now I'm feeling depressed again. If this is the case, it's all for nothing. If the young generation doesn't care about the concepts behind the leave, then what's the point? They'll just rejoin sometime later, yeah? Democracy works that way, sure, but.. I just feel the wave of euphoria crashing down.
My main goals out of the Brexit campaign were predominately cultural ones. as other economic concerns will be dealt with one way or another through the market forces (and to be honest I have no idea what the punishment EU is going to dish out on Britain is going to be), I don't know how many young Britains care about that, I can't ask the majority of them, after all. But I think the only way to in particular keep the place from devolving into a diversified mess ('a la Nigeria), but also to retain whatever remnants of the Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, the only thing you could do is leave.
Why? Well, I'd like to think all people, not just young, think in a more objective sense. If a culture is worth saving it will save itself, so if its not something immediately present to me upon going somewhere, it's not important. That's how I think people think. Am I wrong? I mean I've seen people get the bad end of this before, particularly with Belarus since no one considers them a separate country, and Central Asia is our mess and I think others just generally assume they are our vassals forevermore™.
This is something an American, too, has said in response to Ukraine going protectionist and demanding Ukrainian (by country of origin and language) music start being played at a certain percentage by law (although idk if this passed or not). He said that if its good music, it will sell itself, and it doesn't need any support. But I don't know, I'm sort of uncertain about these things. But whatever the case, I can't say I've ever felt like I could hop on any train of this crazy ride. I don't know what I am, I don't know what I want, I don't know what to see. Maybe it's because I'm so disconnected from European affairs other than what the news can tell me, but I just feel like it's all lost anyway and that the sort of "neo-liberal policies" or whatever you can call it is the new default for the future generations.
Sorry for being all bitchy, everyone. To be honest I guess I just see the (near) future of the world being led by the American-European combo unless we get our **** together over here and do something with ourselves. And if that's the case, then we will be led by lazy but otherwise indifferent (or rather pro) people to the concept of unionisation and domain loss of sovereignty?