BPB: How can we persevere when no one has a clue what the hell is going to happen?

I know a lot of people are bored of Brexit blabber, but I had a blog before this whole sh-bang so… (I also think that political discussion is good and we should do more of it…preferably before we actually do the voting thing…)

The events of Thursday and Friday left us feeling shocked and unsettled. I don’t think that there were many people on either side of the debate that *really* thought Brexit would happen. But apparently, so I am repeatedly told, the ‘majority’ (and I use that term very loosely) did vote for it — and so it is *actually* happening.

I didn’t personally want this result. Having said that, I didn’t really want people sitting in Brussels deciding things about my life — but actually, I didn’t want the collective people of Britain deciding things about my life either. I think the latter might be worse.

What now?

I’m not sure that anyone really got that far… least of all the Leave campaigners.

We, the UK, now find ourselves without solid leadership, without internal harmony, without an idea of where we fit into the world, and without a bloody clue how this Article 50 thingy is supposed to work (because it hasn’t been tested yet). We are experiencing a dilatory, painful splitting between socio-economic classes, cultures and generations. I don’t think it’s an over-exaggeration to call our situation ‘critical’, and I don’t think this is all going to heal overnight.

But enough with all my ‘sore loser’ whining.

No seriously, what now?

I think it is important to point out that my generation — the generation that’s self-obsessed, lazy and never turns up to vote — voted in record numbers. It’s not imperative to point out (although I do think it’s interesting) that 2/3 of this generation voted in; and I think mostly for the sake of continued opportunity, reform, collaboration and progression. Perhaps it’s because ‘globalisation’ is less scary for us — we grew up with it. Whatever, I don’t know. I can only tell you that I voted for these reasons.

Nobody knows what is going to happen now…

But we do know that the country will eventually be left with this (my) generation. And I think that we have at least proven that we care very much about what happens to it. So that is my positive note. We’ll be okay — we shouldn’t let it be otherwise. We must maintain connections with our neighbours and our closer communities; and most of all keep caring about what happens for the sake of the future and the future’s future.

It’s fruitless to speculate when no one really knows what’s going to happen…

Shocked and unsettled people tend to panic, and that’s not very helpful. What we can do is to 1. stop telling people to stop whining, 2. stop whining and 3. stop these atrocious acts of racism. Whether there has actually been a spike in acts of racism following this vote or whether there’s the same amount of racism there always was is immaterial. There should be none.

We’ll just have to wait and see. And I suppose that leaping off a cliff is exciting in some respects.

Socrates famously said something along the lines of “All I know is that I know nothing” and he seemed cool with that… although he was sentenced to death by democratic vote…

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