Felix Stalder on Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:39:07 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Hungarian government chasing CEU |
Hi Morlock, the case is pretty straight forward here. Hungary has an increasingly totalitarian government. An "illiberal democracy" as Orban calls it. They are systematically dismantling the basis for independent thinking. First there was purge in cultural institutions, then tight control over media and now one of the last bases with a loosely internationalist outlook (as academia has always had) is attacked. This is part of a remaking of the mental framework of society, which goes has far as removing statues of dead philosophers, simply because they were a) Jewish (aka not patriotic) and b) Marxist (aka not patriotic). http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/228736/statue-of-gyorgy-lukacs-in-budapest-to-be-removed The comparison between Soros and the Koch Brothers is a red herring. Multi-level bullshit scheme to justify the totalitarian power grab. In this scheme, there always needs to an outside enemy: first it was the Roma, then the EU, then the refugees, now Soros. This logic inexorably leads to war. Hungary, at least, has only the means to make live miserable for its own people. The US, where similar dynamics are at play, has the means to make it miserable for everyone. Felix On 2017-03-29 18:43, Morlock Elloi wrote: > > Not knowing anything about the issue, I was puzzled to see that search > engines point to hundreds of pages with pretty much the same assessment > of CEU. # 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://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: