The sublimely ridiculously splendid Muse have got all conceptually geographical on their latest album and tour.
Broadly speaking they seem to be encouraging a certain amount of insurrection to create a unified Asia and Europe and have very kindly written a national anthem for the new global superpower to use once created.
"And these wars, they can't be won, and do you want them to go on, and on and on. Why split these states, when there can be only one ... United States, Of Eurasia."
It is, I suppose, fairly unusual to be in a room of several thousand people leaping up and down and grinning broadly in response to the bombast and spectacle of an extremely loud and virtuoso rock band, whilst being simultaneously prompted to consider the Eurasian Heartland geopolitical theories of Halford Mackinder.
In brief then (and with thanks to this recent argument re a Eurasian defence policy for Europe). The European / Asian subcontinent is the world's axial super-continent. It has 70% of the world's people, 2/3 of the inudstrial output, 3/4 of known energy reserves, twelve of the world's great military spenders and all the global superpowers excpet the US. It should therefore unify as a global politcial entity and immediately appoint Matthew Bellamy as Minister for Cultural Alignment. Discuss.
