Thank you Paul Arbair who commented on a brief reference in my post on Joseph Tainter to Brexit in Tainterian (sic) terms with a link to his own far far far more thorough and worked analysis of Brexit and wider neo-populism. Paul’s post is especially good on the rather pat response of many commentators to blame Leave Voters for being old / ignorant / racist etc. I will link to the full post as below:
The British vote in favour of an exit from the EU has thrown the UK’s political system into chaos and shocked Europe and the world. The long-term consequences of this vote are still unclear, but some fear it could trigger the undoing of the UK and accelerate the disintegration of the EU. Many see this […]
via #Brexit, the populist surge and the crisis of complexity — Paul Arbair
Séamus Sweeney 