My comment on the Bella Caledonia article: Sometimes a thing "feels binary" because that is its nature. Appreciating and understanding the binary elements of a debate is essential to properly comprehending that debate. While nuanced arguments and an inclusive, holistic approach are always good, they cease to be so to whatever extent they complicate clear choices and obscure definitive objectives. Binary positions are the essential starting point for all political discourse. The fundamentals of Scotland's constitutional debate are simple binaries - independence/union; popular sovereignty/parliamentary sovereignty; social justice/social injustice; sustainability/exploitation - all of which are eventually distilled down to a straightforward Yes/No. Discussion will circle these core binaries on different planes and in more or less elliptical orbits. Discussion should never be allowed to depart from the plane of the fundamental issues. Nor should discussion be permitted to stray so far as to lose sight of the binary choices to which it must always return. One of the least productive (and most irksome) aspects of the Yes campaign was the constant, carping critique from self-appointed moderators lecturing us on how we were were talking to the wrong people about the wrong things at the wrong time and in the wrong way and insisting that we should really be talking about [enter name of pet issue] instead. In fact, the strength of the Yes campaign was that it talked to everybody about all sorts of things all the time and with countless voices. But always bringing things back to the fundamental binaries and the indispensable message that independence is the great enabler. There is undoubtedly value in the kind of exercise being proposed by Bella Caledonia. But, for pity's sake, let us avoid the futility of an endless debate about the debate. Navel gazing combined with tail-chasing has the sole advantage that you get to watch yourself disappear up your own arse. Let us not forget that our demand is actually very uncomplicated and uncontroversial. We seek for Scotland no more than that status and those powers which other nations assume to be theirs by right. The most important binary of all relates to this simple demand, and its denial.