JC Juncker: Leader of a Gang of Bureaucrats?

EU Disharmony on the Upswing The bureaucracy in Brussels finds itself more and more often in rows with prominent European politicians. This decline in political harmony is actually fairly typical for a period of secular economic decline. It is indirect confirmation that said decline is far from over.
It can be observed throughout history that common projects involving large disparate communities tend to splinter when economic boom times are giving way to sizable busts. As people tend to become more and more exclusionary in hard times, entire empires can break apart. Large, diverse groups and their common undertakings increasingly lose support, as it is ‘every man for himself’.
This is a socionomic observation, which can be confirmed empirically. There are both advantages and disadvantages to this kind of development. Among the worst potential disadvantages is a rising probability of all sorts of war, from trade wars to ‘cold wars’ and ultimately ‘hot’ wars.
Nowadays, a few noteworthy potential advantages must be considered as well. For instance, the trend to introduce economically extremely damaging ‘anti climate change’ legislation should be expected to be on the retreat in future. Since climate change is a non-problem that is barely influenced by human conduct, the costly fight against it is apt to produce sizable setbacks in terms of economic progress, while producing zero net benefit for society at large. This is not to say that no-one is benefiting of course. Sufficient closeness to government’s climate gravy train ensures quite sizable benefits for a number of people – alas, to the detriment of everybody else.
Similarly, the perverted modern-day idea of the EU, the goal of which seems to be to create a socialistic super-state is likely to be challenged more and more often. Note that the EU’s founders were actually mainly concerned with bringing back the liberal Europe of pre-war times, restoring free trade and free movement of capital and people, combined with strong subsidiarity. They had no interest in creating a kind of ‘USSR light’ (for more details on this see ‘The European Idea’).

This post was published at Acting-Man on November 6, 2014.