What I see in the Brexit vote, as well as in Trump and Sanders supporters, is that people are yearning to live in societies where they feel safe, where their basic needs are met, and then some; where there are opportunities to learn and be productive and to enjoy life. Some of that is framed in false nostalgia for that which never was, but all of the xenophobic and racist rants are basically saying that, albeit in a thoroughly ignorant and deluded way. The Berners are saying that too though, in more altruistic and hospitable ways. The neocon/neolib establishment is saying NO, only the few can have that, most of you must eat shit.
What no one is saying is that if we continue to trash the biosphere NO ONE will have any of that goodness. The overcrowding many in Britain feel is going to be everywhere because we continue to grow our population. The hunger and thirst of the so-called "undeveloped" nations will be everywhere because we are urbanizing and degrading farmland, and wasting/polluting water, at alarming rates.
Humans are often at their best when things are at their worst, so perhaps we are setting the stage for a magnificent unification of the humans into a great blaze of consciousness that makes living in bodies unnecessary. Maybe we'll come together, remain corporeal, and stop our destructive ways. Maybe we will make a desert of this whole planet. There are many possibilities.
