Liam Hogan
Heritage yobbo.
Intern at Dark Heart of Gradual Reform Pty. Ltd. All punked up on jupiter oil, rolling fifty deep.
Mostly at aus.social/@liamvhogan
- This use of ‘consensus’ deserves the quote marks. When a big Party does this it’s called a factional stitch up. Contested ballots are good
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- You have two candidates, you vote, one wins one loses
- I’m on board with the idea of a ‘Progressive Patriotism’ particularly because we *should* reclaim the basic sense that commitment to a society and government obligations to common wealth go together. Being patriotic shouldn’t be flag-cape racist stuff. So what if it sounds cringe. Cringe is good
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View full threadGaita's been talking for a few years now about reclaiming a positive Australian patriotism grounded in love of place and people, while accepting the Australian nation-state may need major change (even the name). I can see the force of it but even 'nice' nationalisms (🏴,🇮🇪) are still nationalisms.
- What I think is that Australian society was never more culturally secure and confident than in the three decades or so—our Treinte Glorieuses—between seriously committing to mass migration and the Howard era retreat from multiculturalism. A country and a society can be an ambition!
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- This sucks! I’m literally on my way to state of origin
- This is maybe the core of Liam Hogan Thought
- Nationalists refuse to believe that it's possible to both like the place you come from, and understand that other places are good, too.
- There’s a strain of nationalism that even says—get this—one’s country is so good it should welcome migrants from others with other experiences, to make it even better! This has been done!
- Am I aware of the history of nationalism? Yes, you do not have to tell me of the pitfalls thank you. But one strain of nationalism started out as a fundamentally liberal, humane, inclusive and broad thing, and it’s a commitment to that imperfect, intangible, flawed imaginary that is my country.
- Get a blog
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- A celebrity running as a candidate in an election with a half-serious half-just-saying aesthetic, primarily to shake up a system, and claiming to speak on behalf of unrepresented people, is a bit too familiar to be honest
