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Given it still has its own currency, Hungary has options; it can, like the UK, leave the EU without profound disruption, unlike those countries in the eurozone, which are in affect trapped by the single currency.

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why would anyone in their right mind even want to belong to the EU as it has morphed into a monster

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Problem is that the EU is like the proverbial roach motel; you can check in but you can't check out.

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UK did !

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really ? Well, there's a first time for everything. Orban is a zionist too. That's a problem

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The tension of this dilemma is equivalent to that of localism and globalization, which results from the fallacy of composition.

The whole (EU) only (thinks it) maintains coherence of the parts (nations) if these have the identity of the whole (ideology).

The parts (nations) only (think they) formalize a whole (EU) because they preserve their identities (autonomies).

The coordination systems (ideologies) of a totality (deterministic centralization) of individual parts is, in itself, a synchronization process that dissolves the idiosyncratic identities that create the emergence of unification (new power).

The forces of global synchronization are entropic in nature.

The point of return of the individual parts to their autonomies has already been irreversibly surpassed, given the totality of synchronization.

The totalization of synchronicity is not a singularity but the entropy of copies of singularity distributed, now devoid of space-time dimensions.

The totalitarian "body" creates the dilemma of its own extinction because it cannot sustain the tension of coherence given its ideological nature.

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I suppose the question then, if I understand you correctly, is how long it can sustain itself in its current form - and how far does it go down the totalitarian road before it implodes.

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Time is an illusion generated by the computation of formalisms that possess an initial and a final state.

Time is indeterminate, unlike both the initial and final forms.

The road to totalitarianism has no end as long as the collective unconscious continues to desire traveling it.

The observed totality may be an illusion of the space-time metric, and we may already be within another, even more global or metaglobal system.

The totality of systems is limited by the very planet itself, should that be humanity's will.

Throughout history, various systems have repeatedly reunified a collapsed Europe. There exists a will for synchronization, a desire stemming from the unconscious, which is immanent and mirrors the entropy of the system as self-extinction.

Questions about time become irrelevant given that the conditions of forms are transitioning irreversibly toward the digital realm.

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Got it

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Trump should visit and show solidarity. The EU is like an unelected politburo in Soviet times. Its political function should be disbanded

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Could write more or share resources on the Tusk attack on rule of law? I’m not familiar with this perspective. Thanks in advance!

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The EU is a trade union first and foremost. Quite different from the USA . von DER Leyden doesn't have a mandate. She was making a play for NATO GS. The nitty gritty of the EU is boring but plenty of data.b

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It was *originally* a free-trade association, which was fine. It has since morphed into something very ugly indeed: an authoritarian, anti-democratic bureaucracy.

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Certainly the media of the West stresses those attributes.they have made von der Leydon the star. By its nature the EU is a bureaucracy. No way around that when dealing with trade between countries that have been at war for centuries. Adjustments can made. For example, do we need the European Council, really? Do we need interfence from foreign powers? I say no to both. What do you think?

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Each country needs to meet criteria

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He's a right wing fanatic and that doesn't fit well with most people in the EU. The plight of farmers and the pollution of waterways are pretty bad. The Hungarian refuses reforms to meet even minimum standards of quality. Stuff like that turns people off.

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Utter nonsense. There is nothing fanatical about him. The fanatics are the EU and apparently people like you.

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He refuses to toe the line so the EU find creative ways of punishing him and the country. Much as they found a creative way of overturning an election result in Romania that they didn’t like.

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