The Narcissism of National Solipsism: Civic Nationalism and Sub-State Formation Processes in Scotland Part 4

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The Narcissism of National Solipsism: Civic Nationalism and Sub-State Formation Processes in Scotland Part 4

• *The Narcissism of National Solipsism: Civic Nationalism and Sub-State Formation Processes in Scotland**

• *Citation:** Law, A. (2017). The narcissism of national solipsism: civic nationalism and sub-state formation processes in Scotland. *Human Figurations: Long-term Perspectives on the Human Condition*, *6*(2), 1-24.

• *Link:** https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0006.206/--narcissism-of-national-solipsism-civic-nationalism-and-sub?rgn=main%3Bview=fulltext[1][2]

1: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0006.206/--narcissism-of-national-solipsism-civic-nationalism-and-sub?rgn=main%3Bview=fulltext

2: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/h/humfig/11217607.0006.206/--narcissism-of-national-solipsism-civic-nationalism-and-sub?rgn=main%3Bview=fulltext

• **Full disclaimer on the unwanted presence of AI codependency cathartics/ AI inferiorists as a particularly aggressive and disturbed subsection of the narcissist population:*** https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer[3][4]

3: https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer

4: https://narcissismresearch.miraheze.org/wiki/AIReactiveCodependencyRageDisclaimer

Centrifugal tensions in the balance

• *England consolidated their position as competent sub-state managers rather than ideological nationalists.**

1. As constitutional nationalists, the SNP consolidated their position as competent sub-state managers rather than ideological nationalists obsessed with the *idée fixe* of an independent state (Carman, Johns and Mitchell 2014). By managing the tension balance in ‘Scotland’s interest’, the SNP had no need to navigate the seemingly insuperable dilemmas of divided British–Scottish national loyalties that confronted the Labour Party in Scotland. On the other hand, mono-nationalism limited the relevance of the SNP at UK elections. They could never become the governing party of the UK state while any prospect of a ‘progressive coalition’ with Labour was widely resented in England

• *Governments are relationships of dependence. People only endorse dependence when it is safe to do so due to witnessed competence. Arguing with this or getting angry about this instead of solving the issue with competence is a straight shot to further anti-government sentiment.**

1. The reciprocity of the dependence of government on those they govern and of the governed on governments, though still uneven enough, has become less uneven than it used to be. The balance of parties in different countries is a fairly exact indicator of this balance of power and its fluctuations.

Conclusion

• *Brexit revealed that the state formation process in British was fundamentally incomplete in noticeable ways and that its inability to really sit with other states as self-consistent and therefore truly autonomous was because it revealed how untrue of them this presupposition upon entry was.** **It had residual unresolved issues that it hadn't resolved in itself and so was fundamentally insecure to other states.**

1. More recent phases of the British state-formation process have seen the ‘outwardly embattled’ state-society become increasingly an ‘inwardly embattled’ one.

• *England became associated with military and logistics and Scotland with civic nationalism, replicating the paternal/maternal role rift but strangely in the opposite gendered direction for figureheads with the English figurehead being the Queen and the Scottish figurehead more often associated with the military.**

1. This process is not without ambiguities, tensions and contradictions. Inter-state rivalry and survival, including foreign wars, nuclear armaments, the policing of borders and immigration controls, came to be identified with British ‘state-identity’, allowing humanist problems of social justice to frame Scottish civic nationalism.

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