The Catalan independence referendum 2017 demonstrates many things, for example, the ongoing break up of the ideal of the Divine rights of Rulers or Kings to that this Divine right can only be defended by violence.
Or like this.
When Franco died in 1975 was Spain liberated from an almost Open Theocracy.
And now the Catalans in Spain appears to liberate themselves from the almost hidden Theocracy demanded by the national state of Spain.
And then will hopefully the Catalans and others realise the necessity to completely liberate themselves from the terror of Hidden Religious dogmas or Platonism altogether.
And Do not miss this!
Why Secede? What’s so important about having your own country? BBC Newshour Extra, 30 September 2017
Information and Podcast
Secede means "to leave one's companions"
What they actually discuss – even if this perspective is hidden – is the validity of the Divine rights of Rulers.
Discussion leader
Owen Bennett Jones
Participants
Margaret MacMillan, professor of international history at Oxford University
Elizabeth Ohene, Ghanaian politician and journalist
Neal Ascherson, writer and historian of nationalism
James Irving, lecturer on self-determination at the London School of Economics
Especially interesting is that the team behind Newshour Extra suddenly (?) are open to not automatically accept the Dive rights that they one week earlier proclaimed was the only possible truth, see the earlier post; BBC and the Academic Cult Demand You to Replace Understanding with Faith.