Has the Better Together campaign truly been as inept as it has seemed at a distance? Everything I've heard suggests that it's been a condescending mess.
I've always been very wary of the nationalist impulse. It's too often been a shorthand for intolerance, yet in the long term nation states are going to be one of the very few institutions we're going to be able to rely upon. I can't help but think we've now started upon the long swing where the power of nations is being eroded while that of corporations and religious institutions is waxing. This is something that should worry us. That's why we should look towards nations to protect their citizens, especially those who are not represented by other institutions. Nations (and to some extent NGOs) are our best for representing the interests of the people, and that's why Salmond's proposed cut in corporation tax strikes me as a particularly foolish step. In the decades to come the national and supra-national entities are going to be the only ones looking out for us, and I fear we may need the collective bargaining power that larger nations offer us.
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Date: 2014-09-08 01:10 am (UTC)I've always been very wary of the nationalist impulse. It's too often been a shorthand for intolerance, yet in the long term nation states are going to be one of the very few institutions we're going to be able to rely upon. I can't help but think we've now started upon the long swing where the power of nations is being eroded while that of corporations and religious institutions is waxing. This is something that should worry us. That's why we should look towards nations to protect their citizens, especially those who are not represented by other institutions. Nations (and to some extent NGOs) are our best for representing the interests of the people, and that's why Salmond's proposed cut in corporation tax strikes me as a particularly foolish step. In the decades to come the national and supra-national entities are going to be the only ones looking out for us, and I fear we may need the collective bargaining power that larger nations offer us.