John Hopkins on Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:27:08 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> second thoughts on the American election |
>These are great comments, useful, basic, from the place where it is >happening. just a few fast words: speaking from rural Arizona, a couple km from where McCain gave his last rally (featuring Hank Williams, Junior) after midnight on Monday and where Dick Cheney recently bought a large chunk of land to 'retire' to: I would disagree alarmingly with the term 'chatter' -- it's at minimum a foaming-at-the-mouth snarl that will proceed to shred any and everything that surfaces media-wise and Washington-wise that the 'Left' will attempt or do until the self-same wolves return to power. The machine grinds on. I agree with Brian -- EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE is not only on the table, but it is in the advanced stages of being carved up by the same-old same-old forces and webs of power, whatever you want to call them. And it's all heightened (esp here in the US) by this now backed-up-to-the-wall-and-deeply-paranoic population segment who refuse any change, and difference, anything that compromises their GOD-GIVEN right to continue feasting on the GOD-GIVEN cake that they are already stuffed with. The first thing I heard this morning (live, not in the media) was a question along the lines of what's the first Marxist move that Obama will make? Suspending freedom of speech? I kid you not. These people are warped extremists by any global standard. They will not 'give up' anything, they will not engage in any civil society unless they control it. My friend Frieder Nake reminded me a couple days ago: "The anarchists have this beautiful principal line: If elections were capable of changing anything, they would long have been forbidden." If I can stomach it, I'll go to the local Mega-Church (where the parking lot is full of large pick-up trucks and the 'clientele' arrive with NRA tee-shirts and travel mugs of coffee) and bring a report here. These people are real, they love GOD and and will do anything to anybody who stands in the way of what God rightfully gave them... yikes! and for those of you outside the US (inside, too!) -- remember that 'landslide' as defined in US media can be as little as 2% of the population. With the last numbers I had, Obama's 'landslide' historic momentous incredible astonishing revolutionary win was by 2.4% of the population. It may be more temporary a situation than anyone of us would wish. jh # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org