I feel almost depressed I didnt do more IRL to swing the indyref. I realised this as I found myself sticking a Green Yes leaflet Id found lying in the street to the old red brickwork of Hillhead High school with a bit of blu tack from a lamp post. Nationalism, or Scottishness would never be the foundation of my politics but you gradually realize as you go about these things that a different form of civic behaviour is possible once you break out of the comatose, auto-pilot mindset of empty gestures, miserable failures and pyrrhic victories that characterize the way we do politics under this United Kingdom state. Every Yes sticker is a kind of cipher for something different. As I used to say watching the presidential campaign of Obama, Yes we can! isnt a policy platform. It isnt even a complete sentence. Yes we can what? But here you have actual people with interesting minds mouthing these slogans rather than creeps in-hoc to the usual power elites. Not focused on leaders. And the key point is that these are not people who ignore one another. These are a peer to peer network of thinkers, voters, potential activists, potential volunteers, potentially productive, innovative, intelligent people. We have more potential that it appears we do, than the London media assumes we do. Ive seen far too much mediocrity in my life, in a city that seemed to be seething, underneath, in its very fabric for something entirely different, and didnt even have a language to express what that was. But clearly, independence is the instrument to make a sort of music of new possibilities. I digress.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 17:47:18 +0000
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