Brexit explained to laymen in 10 seconds flat.

Brexiting. A series on being English. # 15

The fine kettle of fish pictured above tells it all. These people were and are disingenuous about Brexit and themselves.

Brexit was done to keep EU scrutiny of rich folk's personal finances at bay, especially of Arron Banks and Jacob Rees-Mogg. Brexit was sold as "take back control" by Nigel Farage, and he was brilliant at it, I must say. Brexit was spruced up with gut fears of criminal immigrants (exactly according to the playbook Steve Bannon devised for Donald Trump and Cummings). That's all. 

And now both remoaners and brexiteers are talking about daily economics and contend that Brexit is a disaster. Brexit has and had nothing to do with ordinary people or national interests. In the light of the purpose of Brexit, Brexit was and still is a huge success for

The Law of Multiple Causes. The definite tool for understanding and handling chronic problems

  

A problem is a point where several counteracting forces are acting upon at the same time.

A chronic problem is a situation that will not go away, whatever you do. 

Examples of the latter are easily found in health and politics. But they abound everywhere. I bet you can think of perhaps a hundred of them yourself unassisted. That is how common they are.

How to proceed? There is a natural law, an immutable law, which will help analyse and solve your problems. I found it in 2012 and published it then but was remiss not to communicate it on a broader scale

We are talking about The Law of the Multiple Causes.

Brexit is about 'the cut'. Or why complaining about Brexit damage makes no sense to Brexiteers

Brexiting. A series on being English. # 14

If your thoughts about the possible causes of Brexit are becoming too entangled, you can understand it in one simple phrase that includes everything: Brexit is an application of the principle of 'the cut' in English culture. The idea that continentals would be equal or even above English people was too much to bear for the vast majority of the English. That is what caused Brexit and nothing else. 

There are a lot of British blogs and vlogs talking about the economic and political damage of Brexit. They try to prove Brexit was wrong and do that by showing where the pain of Brexit is being felt. This makes no sense because Brexit was not about economics or politics. Which is why the mainstream media are not reporting on Brexit damage and Brexit problems, or, otherwise, simply put the blame on the EU.It could never be the English who are at fault, could it?

The downfall of trade and the virtual disappearance of the farmers and fishing industry, and other industries that may follow, is just collateral damage. The landed gentry may even regard the disappearance of farmers as a bonus: they now will have wider hunting grounds.😄

Why science, and perhaps everything, is flawed.

Are you aware that mathematicians and physicians and economists and political theorist and countless other scientists say that their science is flawed? It is an amazing observation.

The flaw is that they have taken the human element out of it and then, afterwards, say something is wrong or missing. 

In essence, people invent a statement or rule and although this is actually a premise, they call it 'truth'. The next step is that they develop a whole world of on top of it. 

It happens in religion (theïstic or not), mathematics, statistics, music, politics, in the explanation of societies and economics, physics, investing, the list is long . It cannot be understood without

The real Golden Rule

 

The GOLDEN RULE used to be:

Don't do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself.

or its variant: 

Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.

BUT .....

 

A Nigerian banker once confessed to me:

“Oh, but I do apply the golden rule, too, you know.   

It reads: He who has the gold, makes the rules.”

 

If there are no guns involved, most of business and diplomacy becomes more easily to comprehend.

Amsterdam, May 19, 2021

Charles van der Hoog

philospher of culture