Independence—Brexit for Insecure Writers

MONTHLY INSECURE WRITERS’ SUPPORT GROUP CORNER or
INTERDEPENDENCE sans Frontières

Frightened by our own mammoth mistakes…Didyathinkhesaurus…

While Hillary manfully balances the ecological banner, and another more theatrical farce plays out before a world audience, American political fever—no longer showing fervor—appears to influence others around the globe. I speak not just of political change in Australia, South Africa and last week’s headliner, Great Britain, but of an intangible feeling of unrest which now pervades all media-related communications.

Would we [Insecure] writers be surprised if the world at large is responding to the written word? It’s what we do. It’s our job to do it well. Journalists the world over are, after all, insecure writers like us.

Bringing out the Beast…

But is battening down the hatches always the answer in a global storm?
Isn’t it more enlightened to swallow hard, grab the wheel and head for port?
Or, even higher, head for the negotiating table——

Twelve other nations within Euroland have made near-fascist or strongly anti-democratic statements. Several with near-Eastern borders make it clear they’re shutting up shop on the neighbors.

Eleven states tried to leave or exit the American Union, which caused America’s bloodiest war, 1861-1865, but those states failed and were forced back into the Union.

“Imagine the absurdity of the EU trying to wage a war to force Great Britain back into the Union”
Christopher H.Helton, Economist

Independence or Interdependence Without Borders

Political suicide or flower arranging for dummies

You’re the kind of person you meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud running up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years.
And though you’ve tried you just can’t hide your eyes are edged with tears.

You better stop, look around,
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes.
Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown
©1968 Rolling Stones

Anxiety used to be something we relegated to the ‘having an attack’ pile—deal with next Tuesday. Now everybody’s catching it.

The Ultimate in national barriers—Hadrian’s Wall—between Scotland and England—still stands

A little historical background may be helpful in this post-Roman world: after all, it was their historians who came up with Brexit in the first place, when A.D.5th Century Brits tried to break away or hid successfully out of reach behind Hadrian’s Wall. The Holy Roman Empire muddled through the Dark Ages, at a time when Pictish art and astronomy in independent rebel nation of (present) NE Scotland were leading the field.

The American Union of states lasted over two hundred and forty years. The Eurobloc will be lucky if it exists for fifty, because of its “historical absurdity”.

Roman historian Livy (Titus Livius, d. A.D.17) said:

While the Greeks war among themselves in their city states, us [Romans] stand united by law and custom

Economists are already pouncing on the pound, buying it back at a thirty-year low in the very heart of troubled London City Stock Exchange. Historians may be looking wildly at Britain’s adoptive Roman law, finance and order for answers to the future. Perhaps the FTSE knows…

The FTSE carries on.
So then should we.
Carry on.
Thanks to my fellow IWSGers and Alex for listening.
©2016 Marian Youngblood