July 30, 2019
MY CORNER by Boyd
Cathey
Secession Column Now
Picked Up by LEW ROCKWELL and Other Sites in the US and Europe
Friends,
Readers
of these columns may recall that I offered an installment “Is the American
Nation Breaking Up?” earlier this month on July 24 where I discussed the
possible courses for the future of this country, including the idea of
secession or separation of regions and states into individual and self-governing
entities. I suggested that such a course of action might well be the best, the
optimum, and least painful option as the decrepit and decaying American union
flies apart centrifugally in angry, vociferous, and—in my opinion—unbridgeable division.
I
substantially reworked and expanded that column and it was picked by THE UNZ
REVIEW and published as a feature
essay on July 26. I also featured that newer version here in these
pages on July 27, with a completely new introduction, titling it: “Nationalism
vs. Secession: Should America Break Up?.
Since then the essay published by UNZ has gone
viral and has been picked up by several Web sites and even noticed overseas (in
Europe).
Among the
sites thus far (which I know about) that have reproduced it or have quoted it
are:
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC:
VOX POPULI:
And most
importantly, LEW ROCKWELL:
Thus,
there is conversation about the future going on, and it is not just amongst and
by our noted Southern scholars and writers like Drs. Clyde Wilson and Brion
McClanahan, who have done so much to keep this topic alive and fertile. It is a
conversation that I believe we must have—a conversation that goes back to our
very Constitutional founding as a nation and our understanding of how this
country can exist and have a future.
Despite
the initial incredulity that any talk of “secession” brings, the shaking of
heads, the response of: “You can’t be serious!”—despite the very real factors
and immense forces arrayed against such potential future action—despite a
growing, powerful, and jealously intrusive national government—yes, secession,
or perhaps better stated, “separation” may just be one way of settling the
stark and increasingly violent divisions that oppress and affect the United
States.
At the
very least, that was my hope—to generate some serious discussion.
And, in
some small way, I think that is happening.
As one on
the latest of the 330 plus commenters at the UNZ REVIEW site wrote:
July 30, 2019
at 3:39 am GMT • 100
Words
Note
for posterity:
On July 29, 2019, Lew Rockwell himself
reposted this essay (“Is it Time for America to Break Apart” by Boyd
Cathey) to
his long-running, major libertarian site LewRockwell.com, earning the article, I presume, thousands of
more views today, and perhaps cumulatively hundreds of thousands there alone,
in due course.
Is It Time
for America To Break Apart? Long past time. Article by Boyd D. Cathey.
Thousands
of readers have now read that essay. And my own site [http://boydcatheyreviewofbooks.blogspot.com/ ] has
since seen more hits and views, not just for this column but for others, too.
And that
is gratifying, not because of any financial gain (I get none) or notoriety (I’d
prefer not to get any, especially after Morris Dees attacked me by
name about sixteen years ago!), but because the future of this country IS at stake and DOES need to be examined, even if it be painful and very difficult
to do so.
That is and has
been my hope all along; and that was and is my desire with the essay, “Is
It Time For America to Break Apart?”
It's all very fascinating. Administratively though, I'm fearful that it would be about as messy as any sort of hypothetical "reparations" scheme one could come up with.
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