tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post6764814600463383794..comments2023-12-28T01:11:49.188-08:00Comments on Cum Lazaro: Brendan O'Neill on same sex 'marriage'Lazarushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post-32916743880760730802012-12-16T15:10:42.617-08:002012-12-16T15:10:42.617-08:00Yes, I agree! (Not with the Jetsonism of course!) ...Yes, I agree! (Not with the Jetsonism of course!) The reaction to Braveheart nationalism is generally creditable -and the consequent absence of any racist narrative within the modern SNP is probably insufficiently remarked on and applauded. The problem at the moment is that we're in the campaigning phase: the two beasts of Union and Independence glower at each other and any nuances or doubts go out of the window. I think the best that many of us can do now is to ensure that Scotland has a political sphere that isn't simply about campaigning, where we talk the things of the polis, but at a deeper, slightly less engaged level. Whatever happens in the referendum, that's something that's going to be needed.Lazarushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post-8747883357360357912012-12-16T04:02:08.250-08:002012-12-16T04:02:08.250-08:00I do like your "Jetsonism" line (speakin...I do like your "Jetsonism" line (speaking as a devoted nationalist Jetsonist myself!) and increasingly, I can't help but wonder whether that vision of a brave new enlightened Scotland, and the exaggerated disavowals which constitute that sort of vision of the new state, doesn't overlook important elements to a nationalist argument we ought to be thinking about. The impulse agin "Braveheartism" is, I think, mostly creditable. We might detect in it, an anxiety to distinguish our nationalist argument from those premises on concerns of ethnicity, for one - but the "cultural" nationalist middle ground seems to be being neglected in the constitutional debate so far.<br /><br />We'll popularise Jetsonism yet!Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.com