Brexit (vote by Britons on June 23 to leave the E.U.) means nothing. Nothing will change. The stock market will go on as before. The pound will go on as before. The government will not invoke Article 50 to trigger secession, because they are not obligated to do so. They will have a new vote. The Scottish Parliament will veto it. Something else will stop it. It simply won't happen.
On the other hand, Brexit means everything, because even despite all that, the E.U. as we know it is doomed. If Britain doesn't bother to formally leave, then perhaps they will be the last one standing in it (unlikely).
This is what is freaking people out the most right now, more than the reality of the political change. It is the undisputed reality that we are now in a post-globalist world. Many people don't realize it yet, because they were not aware of how much we were embedded in a globalist system. The reality of the time just seems like, well, reality. No one thinks it could be any other way until it ends, and then it was obvious how much of a "system" it was, and recognizable and describable it became by the shifts of history that let people see it, while not having to swim within it.
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