EUrasia sounds angelic just as synaesthesia

“Monnet’s was very much an enlightenment project, an appeal to the head over the heart. The guiding thought for advocates of the Anglosphere and Eurasianism is more romantic, focusing on spiritual and linguistic bonds.

Romanse used to be more egoccentric, while Monnet’s idea was much more tibian. Enlightened, yea, but far more than enlightened than the black dogs o’ reason will ever be.

“In its modern geopolitical iteration, Eurasianism pits a communitarian Moscow-led continental empire in perpetual conflict with a liberal Anglo-Saxon maritime empire. Putin’s 2012 creation of a Eurasian Customs Union was, writes Clover, a clear “wolf whistle” to the geopolitical mystics.

Are we mystics here? With our 40,000 Hertz morse code?

We are the Greek EU-topia! Just as the Turks belong to US!

Peter Pomerantsev – http://www.politico.eu/article/the-idealistic-pull-of-the-anglosphere-leave-brexit-emotions/ 13 july 16