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Independence Day: Resurgence And Brexit

6/26/2016

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     "First came the shock.   Then fear..."
    The above could well have been the opening lines of  the save-the-world-from-alien-invaders movie sequel "Independence Day:  Resurgence"  that came out this past Friday.
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     But those words were in fact the opening line of a New York Times article  that also came out on Friday,  the day after Britain voted to  break with the European Union,
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    ...which action economists, world leaders, and human beings around the globe fear may have the opposite effect of saving the world,  which was in essence the original, though not-yet achieved, purpose  of the European Union.  
   So now  the spirit of accord, common economic and social good and peaceful co-existence that has ruled Western Europe since World War II,
....when Europe suffered death and destruction reaped by human invaders,
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    ...has been fractured by the small majority of Britons who voted for Brexit.
    By Friday evening when I was sitting in a movie theater,

...watching greedy alien invaders smash up Earth,
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...global stock markets had already taken a similar smashing earlier in the day.
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     What the long-term effects of Brexit will be for the rest of us on the planet has yet to play out.
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     But as I sat in that movie theater caught up in the fantasy of a world where all people could come together to defeat* against all odds and hope an exponentially stronger enemy, where Blacks,
Whites, Asians, Americans, Europeans, Africans, Middle-Easterners, young folks, old folks,

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...straights,
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...and gays,
  ... could all set aside their differences to unite for the survival of our planet, it occurred to me that maybe what our planet really needs
... is a good alien invasion.
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* I don't believe that it's a spoiler to share that the humans defeat the aliens in this movie.  After all, does common sense not beg the question that if earth were destroyed in this sequel, how could there then be a 3rd, 4th, and 5th Independence Day sequel?

Reference:
 http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/merkel-sees-no-need-to-rush-britain-into-quick-eu-divorce/ar-AAhD9TS?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=UP97DHP

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