Globalization

4 mn readThe self-perceived decline of countries that regard themselves as once having been mighty offers a fascinating deep insight into the darkest corners of the pshyche of ebbing nations, as the people who consider themselves a country’s core and bulk, its rightful owners, are overwhelmed by the fear of falling under Nirad Chaudhuri’s spell — Lack of power tends to corrupt and absolute lack of power corrupts absolutely, which fuels a sour nostalgia for the largely imagined good old days in which they alone ruled the world, the waves, at the bare minimum their neighbors, or at the very least themselves, a resentful sentiment revealed by the 53% of the English who voted to leave the European Union.