Advanced Listening and Vocabulary
democracy is the most fragile of flowersa flourishing capitalism
our neck of the woods
the Twin Peaks paradox (Twin peaks was a television show. Read about it on wikipedia)the mountain of debts
the mountain of idle cash
extinguish the mountain of debt
green energy
industrial plants
inflating stock exchanges
beating up stock exchanges
a mountain of idle cash
crucially
the political sphere
the economic sphere
a democracy-free zone
one sphere colonising the other sphere
eating into its power
colonising and cannibalising the political sphere
reunite the political and economic sphere
the Soviet debacle
automation makes the twin peaks taller, the waste loftier and the social conflict deeper
a surveillance mad high plutocracy
a matrix-like dystopia
ancient Athenian-like hi-tech agora
no more tug of war between capital and labour
digital currency
green technologies
the dustbin of history
global Keynsian
a matrix-like dystopia
fault lines
if these analogies hold water
a pretty strong opinion
a democracy free zone
an opportunity to reboot the eurozone
a massive fault line
architectural fault lines
a colossal mistake
a person who live and breathes Europethe centrifugal forces which will be released will be demonic