Posted on 06/16/2019 8:40:12 PM PDT by Cronos
Launching his bid for the Tory leadership this week, Brexit Britain has been wallowing in a hyped-up psychodrama of national humiliation.
..A random sample of headlines from across the spectrum tells the story: Brexit and the prospect of national humiliation;Voice of the Mirror: Theresa Mays Brexit is a national humiliation;Humiliating to have to beg for EU exit, says Arlene Foster And so, endlessly, on.
There is something hysterical in this constant evocation of humiliation. It is a cry of outraged self-regard: how dare they treat us like this?
Yes, of course, the Brexit debacle has reduced Britains prestige around the world..but Britain has not been humiliated by the EU the deal was shaped by Mays (and Arlene Fosters) red lines. Britain..did get what it actually asked for. Thats not humiliation.
...There is, of course, a long British tradition of phoney affront. When Britain was an aggressive imperial power, it was always on the lookout for intolerable slights to the national honour think of the War of Jenkins Ear in the 18th century, when an assault on an English smuggler was the excuse for war with Spain. Perhaps when you are truly powerful, there is even a certain pleasure in imagining the opposite.
..But a feeling that provided relief from the overwhelming greatness of empire becomes ridiculous when you are no longer a great power. It becomes a mere posture. This is what happened to the idea of national humiliation in the Brexit mentality. At its heart, Brexit depends on the idea that Britain cannot be an ordinary European country and, therefore, that equality within the EU is inherently humiliating.
Britain is humiliated by the EU because it expects to be superior.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
The problem I ser is when a country makes the theme of “national humiliation” predominant. It then pushed them to crazy things like we see with Xi and Taiwan.
Exactly. Straw man arguments about non-existent angst.
Keep yammering like a troll and don’t be surprised if people detect your love for Soros in your posta.
This author needs a Thesaurus. “Humiliation” was sounding like, “Russia, Russia, Russia.”
Nobody is buying into your BS. Give it up.
You see the same in France and historically speaking you can read it in Roman writings of Egyptians and Greeks - when one wallows in the past expecting things to be easy because of one's ancestors great deeds instead of realizing the situation you get what happened to President Trump when he recently visited - the 'baby blimp' was a cry of impotence at the ability to influence the USA.
More like a Snowflake Chronicle...but maybe that’s just my bias against Snowflakes in general - I see them everywhere and it ain’t even Winter...
There is a strain of superiority complex among many leading leave politicians and newspapers.
And an even larger one in the Leftist Remainers.
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That’s also true.
Or the Pursuit of Incontinentia Buttocks near the end of the 20th!
Watching the entire thing reminds me of this classic bit by Month Python:
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These people are still whining over “Suez.” I don’t know how many plays I’ve seen from Great Britain (even tv plays) that talk about humiliation over SUEZ. Sometimes they sound like the Arabs who do the humiliation talk well...but of course the Brits are Arabists.
“... and Nigel clubs himself into fourth place...”
Truly the best comedy show on TV back in the day...
Indeed it was. Late night on public tv back in the day. And it still holds up.
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Suez was a shocker. It was the first time they realized they had dropped to a second rate power. That realization would be hard for any and all of us
Or, you could take it as a positive for the USA, Cronos. I do believe you’ve gone native over there.
It is a positive for the USA.
More of the typical crap from the Yurp socialists at the Manchester Guardian. Theresa May and the rest of the Remoaners in Westminster have inflicted humiliation on the UK by trying to ram through a shameful abject surrender treaty that would be an affront to any sovereign countrys dignity. Fortunately it failed.
Now Britain can get on with retaking its national sovereignty from Brussels by simply leaving. Sooner or later, self interest will compel the Yurps to offer a reasonable trade deal with what is after all, a sizable market. Britain just has to have enough self confidence not to back down first.
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