The Honourable Sôgmô C. Soergel P. and Comrade Party Secretary Adam Camillus von Friedeck, in his own right king of Überstadt, frequently discuss matters of national, cultural, philosophical, and ideological concern. Today they discussed the fine line between simulationism and realism in terms of micropatriology, but the dialogue has been rephrased below as a series…
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A project founded on 13 January 2016 by Sôgmô Gaius Soergel Publicola, “Sagamorial Considerations” are articles published about a specific element of present, future, or ideal Sandum policy. The project reflects a decision by the November 2015 Party Congress to encourage citizen involvement in Sandum society and politics and, while the Sôgmô will publish many of his considerations to the project, “Sagamorial Considerations” are open to universal publication; in other words, any Sandum citizen can write a “consideration.”
[SC] Motive Theory Looks a Lot like Realism, and What It Means for Micropatriology
Ives Blackwood has shared a very compelling paper on what he calls “motive micropatriology,” that he has both allowed me to reproduce below and told me is still a work in progress. I would like to respond to the ideas he has raised, offer a few points of (hopefully) constructive criticism, and also discuss the…
Read More[SC] How Do You Decline Sandus (in Latin)?
Several years ago, I published an article on how to properly decline Sandus in Latin, that is, to inflect the syntactic endings of “Sandus” into oblique cases. The result was… strange, and the rationale for a unique declension of Sandus was both an innovation and a peculiarity to reflect an eclectic (yet also gender-conscious) country.…
Read More[SC] Context Matters, that is why I am not signing the Montediszamble Convention
Like 40% of other Sandum citizens, I am a trained historian. When historians get busy and they start doing that thing they call analysis, context matters. Context can determine the difference between something that is simply a contingent fact versus an underlying cause. I also think context matters because it shows intent. Why do people…
Read More[SC] What right do I have?
Yesterday I published an op-ed about historical simulationism in micronationalism where I criticised another micronation’s propaganda, rhetoric, and justification for a political reform. This “pseudo-intellectual” “foreign interference” responded to a domestic trend in Sandum literature on Realism, which since February 2012 has argued fervently against micronational hobbyism and simulationism. I did not define simulationism in…
Read More[SC] Historical Simulationism and its Incoherence
In February 2019 I announced that I would offer free Latin translations to micronationalists who wanted them. That offer still stands, as does the reason why I gave it in the first place: a lot of micronational Latin is bad and incoherent, and micronations should not settle for second rate. Rather, some knowledge is needed…
Read More[SC] This Remembrance Day, Stay Home & Remember
Remembrance Day is 9 May, and this year marks the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory over Fascism. But how will you celebrate the momentous anniversary of the victory without friends and family around, without the annual Red Square parade that has been postponed? You can still make the day special at home with those…
Read Morethe Blue Lecture—a Sagamorial Speech for the New Year and Decade
The Office of the Sôgmô has released and shared a written speech on the occasion of the New Gregorian Year and the beginning of the new decade. The speech, called the “Blue Lecture,” comments both on Sandus’s history in the last decade but also on the country’s focus in the coming decade and beyond. Read…
Read More[SC] Sôgmô: a complicated title
I knew this would happen. More specifically, I knew that I would have to have this conversation. More than a month ago, around the time Sandus was preparing to celebrate its tenth anniversary, a work colleague (that is, at the university where I work) said to me that some of my other colleagues had been…
Read MoreLong-Awaited Constitution Project issues first edition
The Sôgmô’s Constitution Project has issued the first edition of its literature and graphics on Sandus’s unwritten and republican constitution. The project was planned by the 2016 Philia Plan for the Major Societal Shift, a plan that anticipated the Sôgmô’s departure from Kremlum Sandus for graduate school. Now, a year and four months after þess departure,…
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