{"id":26963,"date":"2017-10-18T06:11:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26963"},"modified":"2017-10-18T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T11:11:17","slug":"if-catalonia-fails-we-all-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26963","title":{"rendered":"If Catalonia Fails, We All Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If Catalonia Fails, We All Fail<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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While I\u2019ve touched on the Catalan independence movement in several recent posts, I want to make one thing clear from the start. I don\u2019t have a strong opinion on whether or not independence is the right move for the region and its people. It would be completely inappropriate for me, a U.S. citizen living in Colorado, to lecture people 5,000 miles away on how they should organize their political lives.<\/p>\n

While I don\u2019t have an opinion on how Catalans should vote, I unwaveringly support their right to decide the issue for themselves. When it comes to the issue of voting and referendums, we\u2019ve entered a topic far bigger than Catalonia, Spain, or even Europe itself. When it comes to the issue of political self-determination, we\u2019re talking about an essential human right which should be seen as inherent to all of us, everywhere.<\/p>\n

The Catalan push for a right for vote on independence should be seen as part of a much larger push toward greater self-determination that humans will demand in increasingly large numbers in the years ahead. The time is ripe for us as a species to insist on a transition toward a more voluntary, sane, peaceful and decentralized process of political organization. This is an idea whose time has come, and I thank the Catalan people from the bottom of my heart for brining it to the fore, and also for conducting themselves in such a noble, courageous and thoughtful manner. You are leading the way for the rest of us.<\/p>\n

The key reason Madrid is wrong on this issue relates to its insistence that Spain must sustain itself in its current form forever. Since Spain is a manmade political creation, this is the modern equivalent of claiming a \u201cdivine right of kings,\u201d but rather than bestowing this archaic conception on individual rulers, it\u2019s bestowed upon a nation-state.<\/p>\n

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If Catalonia Fails, We All Fail While I\u2019ve touched on the Catalan independence movement in several recent posts, I want to make one thing clear from the start. I don\u2019t have a strong opinion on whether or not independence is the right move for the region and its people. It would be completely inappropriate for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[117,968,4285,6174,16556,743,16557],"class_list":["post-26963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-catalonia","tag-independence","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-michael-krieger","tag-self-determination","tag-spain","tag-voluntary-associations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26964,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26963\/revisions\/26964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}