{"id":39592,"date":"2018-03-11T21:32:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T20:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=39592"},"modified":"2022-07-03T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T17:25:13","slug":"quotation-453-the-voice-of-the-hidden-waterfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brennerbasisdemokratie.eu\/?p=39592","title":{"rendered":"The voice of the hidden waterfall."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Can we with a fresh conscience now say that Britain is taking us forward? Can we say that leaving Europe, without our consent, is set to enhance our children\u2019s lives and connect them more constructively to the world of the future? Some would say so, some unionists and some nationalists too, but a heavily majority would not, and many young people in Scotland feel they are being sold out by their own grandparents. Strangely, it is the younger ones who are more profoundly in touch with Scotland\u2019s intellectual traditions. It is not at base a political argument, but a philosophical one, a humanitarian one, an ecological one, putting the rights of all men and women, and all children, before the fears of a class of account-holders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Der irischst\u00e4mmige schottische Autor\u00a0Andrew O&#8217;Hagan in seiner <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/bellacaledonia.org.uk\/2017\/08\/16\/scotland-your-scotland\/\">Keynote-Speech<\/a> beim <\/em>Edinburgh International Book Festival.<em> O&#8217;Hagan wurde mit dem <\/em>Los Angeles Times\u00a0Book Award<em> und dem <\/em>E. M. Forster Award<em> der <\/em>American Academy of Arts and Letters<em> ausgezeichnet.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we with a fresh conscience now say that Britain is taking us forward? Can we say that leaving Europe, without our consent, is set to enhance our children\u2019s lives and connect them more constructively to the world of the future? 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