Re: <nettime> dark days

[Brian Holmes <bhcontinentaldrift@gmail.com>]

I agree that' the specialist responses are the saddest. Not just clever 
people, but anyone who paid attention since TIA in 2002 knew this was 
going on. All the people who are trying to be more cynical than thou are 
lame. There is a huge difference between intellectuals knowing what the 
state is doing (that's their job, after all) and official, 
incontrovertible proof for everyone. The difference is made by acts of 
exceptional courage. It's ihugely positive. Cynicism is a fear to 
commit. It's the banality of defeat.

I prefer to find this recent news a light in dark times.

BH

PS: The Anthropocene is now our fate. Any blow to the capitalist state 
that has brought it on is a good thing. For the rest, knowing how to 
face it is what wre all need to learn. Let's help each other.

On 06/12/2013 04:01 PM, Rob Myers wrote:

> Some of the saddest specialist responses to PRISM that I've read argue
> that it isn't a shock and that clever people knew this sort of thing was
> going on anyway.


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