Europe, a Prophecy

In choosing the 'leave' box, I am acting out of principle.  Because I have very little

understanding or will to read the endless files to gain the knowledge which would 

fructify into understanding.

The futures unknown baby.  Besides being a theme in this ridiculous ballot

(strange for a government to promise this democratic thing, then to have serious

remorse about the possible outcome).  As usual their confidence was 

in democracy being a bread and circus affair.

Voting out, and away, because its been a constant theme of mine:

rejecting lofty claims of enlightenment culture.  Because the middle ages 

weren't as barbaric as made out, torture gained new ground with the birth of the 'early modern' age, 

the Tudors, who also invented espionage.  From that proceeding to revolutions and ending in technological war, the icing on the cake being Hiroshima.

The argument for plurality being 'choose corporate' - 

Its logic follows that one must choose the big and 

standardized, the proven.  Everything must look the same anywhere.  

Sterilise the petri dish.  Its safer, especially when you're old

and can't abide anything.  This is a carrion call

of the death instinct,  thanatos.   

William Blake saw the enlightenment for what it was:

a dulling of perception in favour of the metric reduction of measuring

things and proclaiming promethean God like wisdom.  

He foresaw what was happening in America and

France quite early on as not turning out good.  

The french revolution leading immediately to Napoleon and the

attempt to subjugate all Europe (and Russia) to another Roman styled Empire.

America, the giant federation which would lead to the catastrophe of 

the American civil war, the largest conflict of the 19th Century, in the land

of the free.  

This EU is merely the latest incarnation of the pagan Reich concept.

The now old neo-classical idea that Economics, law and democracy,

after Athens and the Roman Republic, rather than the medieval, 'backward' superstitions

of pre-reformation Gothic christianity, will triumph over all irreconcilable differences and

give us a golden age of arcadian bliss.

If only we could live like people in a Poussin painting.  

We'd first have to rid ourselves of cars, planes, and death as well. 

Blake lllustration:

(Blake loved this image, the frontispiece to 'Europe, a Prophecy', and made several copies.

The old man is Urizen, in Blake’s mythology the embodiment of reason and law and a repressive, 

satanic force trying to bring uniformity to mankind. 

(In 'America a Prophecy', Urizen is the evil god who rules during the Enlightenment.) 

Here he is seen kneeling in a flaming discus surrounded by dark cloud, hand held 

over a compass, apparently measuring the black void.)