2017 - EUROPEAN DISINTEGRATION - Catalonia case - Andreu Ginestet (original) (raw)

Some thought spent on the sad disintegration of Europe and the termination of democracy. After Brexit and several battles of regions striving for more autonomy in Europe, we now face a horrendously violent crisis in Catalonia, of which Europe is not only the witness, but also an active promoter. All representatives of European institutions fail to understand that they cannot stand passively watching at the butchery of democracy committed by Spain against Catalo-nia. Passivity here is the equivalent of active brutality. European leaders know this crisis has been building up for decades, if not even centuries. And all European leaders failed understanding how trauma through oppression derives in popular surge, like we see it now in Catalonia. Europe is not a safe space for democracy. Europe has not reworked its trauma and its trauma implication through feudal structures based on greed, fame, violence and domination. The violence rackets in Europe are still active through representatives of few families playing what epigenetics have inscribed in their genes, the game of fierce dominance. Europe never deserved the Peace Nobel, and it deserves it even less now in the face of the crisis in Catalonia. Sadly enough, we can witness European leaders are repeating patterns as in early 1930s until 1935, allowing for brute force to subjugate the will of citizens in Catalonia who simply are tired of the abuses committed by a plutocracy reigning with impunity in Europe but even more so in Spain. We shall remember that European leaders left Catalan citizens alone facing a Spanish dictator and his fellow NAZI friends. We shall understand that history has changed, humanity progressed at least partly, but some patterns of history repeat.