The post that I undertook yesterday on the proposals of Duff do beg the question of how a generational cohort can construct a complete perspective divorced from political and economic reality. The situation does remind me of Barbara Tuchman's book, "The March of Folly", where leaders marched towards the cliff as rapidly as possible, never flinching from the fall.
Often, the ideological commitment has welded the identity of the participants and overridden sensible concerns. Or the information received is filtered through a series of precepts that prevents a true picture of disaster emerging. A good example is the need for Rome to always pronounce its superiority even whilst it was being overrun by barbarians.
The vulnerabilities and perverse outcomes of the Eurozone have been predicted. The illogicality of adding debt to debt (extend and pretend, kicking the can etc.) has been exposed to all. Yet we have a ruinous attachment to austerity and a dysfunctional currency union: left hand versus right hand, no unifying alternative to overcome this lemming pathway.
So simple to explain this as an ideology of Europe, but a whole generation born to the dream and the institutions have been blinded to economic reality and seem unable to discard these constraints. It is not clear why there are not more defections. Such narrow casting dooms the Eurozone.