LONDON, England (PNN) - June 23, 2016 - Hunter S. Thompson, looking back on the 1960s counterculture in San Francisco, lamented the end of that era and its imagined flower-child innocence.
“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back,” wrote Thompson.
Does today’s Brexit vote, win or lose, similarly mark the spot where the once-inevitable march of globalism begins to recede? Have ordinary people around the world reached the point where real questions about self-determination have become too acute to ignore any longer?