Brexistentialism for useful innocents
... Forbes Kerry called the refugee crisis a “near existential crisis” that threatens the security of Europe, and urged Britain to remain part of the European Union. That didn't happen. Refugees and immigration issues continue to fuel Brexit and a similar movement in France, where Kerry has longstanding family connections. But the conflicts in Syria and the Middle East, Africa and Southern Asia that produce refugees, and asylum seekers, and Jihadis have more to do with religious extremism, cults of personality, and messianic visions of the world than a walk along Heidegger's fabled Philosopher's Way in the Heidelberg hills or ivory tower talks about the meaning of life. For the world of Islam, existentialism ...