Regional Independence

At the risk of being haste in judgment, I think the issue of regional independence boils down to getting cooperation among nations and countries involved in providing opportunities to regional governments or groups to decide whether independence is a viable and feasible course of action they should take. Look at Barcelona (I've cited this current example elsewhere in my writings) today.  It has sought an independence for its region from Spain; and Spain's reaction (totally understandable)  is to shout "Revolution! Rebellion!"  But surely there is a reasonable way to approach the subject of that region's becoming independent. Intuitively Appropriate Steps for a region's independence from any other's control, including some national government Here the United Nations could be instrumental in setting forth guidelines for a feasibility study and a subsequent referendum and such procedures in general that should be followed to declare a region's indepe...

    Those politicians in Russian Empire in the late 1980s calling for the end of the Empire--because of its financial and social liabilities--were not war-mongers, in my opinion.  They simply reasoned the Empire was not viable and needed to evolve into something other.      The model that intrigued them was the historical account of the US thrust into independence.  They discerned that the Americans could form into regional units called states; and the entire country of states be called "The United States."  At first the States were coalesced into a federation of states, then because of financial problems, were more strongly held together in the more traditional top-down structure: the President, a representative Congress and an independent federal judiciary the three body-supremes.  But what of the state organization, each state having the same functions at the state level as at the national level?  That thorny question has never been ...

     Clearly, the decision-maker; and an independent nation is one who acts on its own, as its own agent, willing to accept the benefits and liabilities of being free.  Specifically, it does not submit to the pressures of its neighbors or some powerful nation to do their bidding, but weighs the facts in accord with its own reasoning and dedications to principle.  It does not say for instance, "Russia wants our nation to produce XX amount of  wheat, therefore, we must do it!" There is a negotiation process, whereby the  country agrees contractually to a certain amount, understanding its own situation better than some other nation.       Where there's common interests and shared values there's room for peoples to come together while yet preserving each's own independence and ways of thinking and doing things. See Paradigm 2: The Marriage break-up once again.  Both spouses are re-claiming their independence from the marriage situatio...

The best way at looking at Regional Independence is in terms of  paradigms when the situation of one's becoming independent as the first instance of being independent is clear. Paradigms of Becoming Independent   1.  A child becomes an adult.      Living home the first 21 years of his life, an individual leases his own apartment many miles away from his parents' home, where he grew up.  Within a few months, he takes a job in marketing at an advertising agency, something he had been trained for in college.  He joins the dating scene in his town, most of whom he recognized as former schoolmates some time earlier.  No longer he's under his parent's thumb, he's on his own--having already launched a career and found a place for himself in his community. 2.  A spouse divorces his/her spouse.      Here, the individual seeking a  divorce is declaring independence from the relationship she once had with another.  Th...