The Dourian Embassy wrote:Sciongrad wrote:
What? Gruen's pieces address real and very serious issues in the World Assembly and I know I speak for others when I say that many regulars find his articles extremely insightful. It seems like the only people that have an issue with his articles are recipients of his criticism and a crowd of gameplayers that don't really participate in the World Assembly anyway.
I've yet to be subject to any serious criticism from him, and I think his posts are full of nonsense. And I know I speak for others when I say that many regulars find his articles extremely incorrect. Especially ones that claim natsov is dead(when we're in nothing short of a resurgence of the movement and have been for half a year or more), or that the GA forums are completely meaningless to the GA vote. I could go on, but I don't really need to. His work speaks for itself.
My interpretation of that argument wasn't that national sovereignty isn't popular, but that the intellectual legitimacy of the movement isn't what it used to be - or at least it isn't properly argued from a very logical or convincing standpoint. And it really isn't. The recent repeal of the Multilateral Prosecution Act is a pretty good example of this phenomenon. It was strikingly obvious to anyone with a modicum of common sense that the true motivation behind the repeal was purely ideological, but instead of properly articulating an argument to that end anywhere, the repeal ended up arguing from a bizarre perspective of social injustice and a questionable use of "separate but equal," among other things. National sovereignty might still exist as an ideology, but not even active self-proclaimed national sovereigntists can properly articulate it when debating resolutions. I think you're conflating the actual existence of active national sovereigntists (i.e. whether or not people still actively subscribe to it) and whether or not it has intellectual legitimacy.
Also, the GA forum has zero impact on the actual vote. It never, ever has and likely never will. A minute fraction of voters look at the forum - to argue that the debates that go on there have any impact on the actual vote is not grounded in reality.