I have held my comments until I read all 5 parts hoping you would make points of some of my thoughts. I gave you a recommend on part 5 and might go back and recommend each part. This is a good work, thanks.
I am sad you did not make a point of any of my pro-Brexit views but they are outside the mainstream so I am not surprised. I will share them now.
I agree that Brexit is really about immigration but deeper it could be about a more British Britain. I will not dispute that immigration strengthens the economies of developed countries but it dilutes the established culture. Immigration is also changing America. Immigration does not increase diversity it increases Global Conformity. I am not talking just race but language and culture. If we keep on the current path (and the world last long enough) we will all be brown and speak Spanglish. That is a joke but I think you can get my point.
It the U.S. we have a culture called the Amish. They have resisted change and modernization. They have not seen the kind of socio-economic growth that they could have if they adopted more modern tech and allowed more people to join them but they have been able to preserve (and grow) a unique way of life. It would be said if real British Culture was just in a museum or some isolated community. Same for Irish Culture or Welch or Scotish.
Quebec fights this battle all the time and once worked for Independence to strengthen their resistance to outside influences. Without Brexit I fear real British Culture will be lost to history. I don’t see growth and innovation as the path to a better future. I am not ready to join the Amish and I am not really a Luddite but growth and innovation is killing our planet faster than growth and innovation can save it. Our success is killing us.
Nuclear Weapons count as an innovation as do cluster bombs and internet porn.
I am not saying we should stop progress but we progress faster than we can accommodate and assimilate the change. Me, by the time I adopt a new technology it is becoming obsolete. Planned obsolescence has become a business strategy. I have three generations of perfectly working cell phones undamaged sitting on my nightstand. You can get a new one for free if you change your service provider, a newer better phone with cheaper service.
Their is more to growth than getting bigger and more to being better than being faster or cheaper. Some things are better unchanged.
I think I just defined myself as a Conservative and a Conservationist.
TEK
