It's not either globalism or nationalism

WE LIVE in a time when every political scandal is described as a new Watergate that is about to topple the US presidency and any international crisis is analogised with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, signalling the dawn of another world war.

It may not be surprising, therefore, that Britain's vote to leave the European Union is being described by members of the Mainstream Media (MSM) as the most significant political event in post-1945 British political history (forget the 1956 Suez Campaign; the election of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher; the Iraq War fiasco) that marks the collapse of the liberal international order and the end of globalism. And wait, warn the journalists and pundits: imagine if Donald Trump wins the US presidential election - the curtain would then be brought down on the Age of Enlightenment as well.

Journalists like to imagine that they are "living history" 24/7, and there is nothing that gets the pundit's juices flowing more than pontificating about the rise and fall of this and the end of that. (Punctured the tyre of your car after running into that pothole on the road in Washington, DC? Well, that's clearly a sign that the era of American productivity, ingenuity and work ethic is over!)