Convulsive Ingatherings: Brexit & Separateness

To do an encompassing analysis of the Brexit champions, or, this week, of religious convulsions in, for example, the Middle East or the United States; is not possible in this small space or by this small analyst. For the moment it is urgent to understand why a British electoral majority, however slight, chose to demolish the dreams of cooperation, economic and otherwise, on a continent which, in the past century, saw dreams deferred, nay, demolished, as nation rose up against nation in the two most destructive wars in history.