"Brexit is the result of a deep nihilism among the British public... an ideology of smallness, of contraction, of wanting to curl up in our own personal, financially secure hole and will everything amusing or interesting or exciting in the world away. You can see it in the looks that residents give you when they pass; sneering snobs glaring down their noses with entitlement; small-minded townies, bullying you with eyes that you recognize from the primary school lunchroom; the old people, 80 and above, wearing blank stares." - Tom Whyman, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Essex. NY Times,