Re: <nettime> the thing with Europe

[Patrice Riemens <patrice@xs4all.nl>]

On 2018-01-16 20:38, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> > Or maybe it's time to put down our phones, pick up shovels and start 
> > laying fibre.
> > I don't know.
>
> This, of course, is the only solution. If all other arguments fail,
> consider that this gets you to the jail fastest. QED.
>
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>
> Europe was mentioned several times recently as alleged potential for
> doing good stuff, breaking MAGAf, regulating, taxing, creating
> communal infrastructure etc.
>
> If Europe resembled anything from the 1983 Stuttgart Declaration, then
> this would be a reasonable hope and actionable direction.
>
> It doesn't.
>
> It's a 2nd class neoliberal financial cartel, dominated by US directly
> and via proxies (DE, UK.) Pipe dreams notwithstanding, this is not
> changing any time soon. The smartest ones  gravitate to US, because
> becoming rich CEO or semi-rich CTO is more attractive than championing
> community issues. Most Europeans have foreign cellular and landline
> providers - they couldn't even fix that, and they are going to
> communalize and regulate Internet?
>
> "Europe" has, in the progressive circles, the same sinister role that
> Democratic Party had in the US: capture, coopt and subvert anything
> that endangers the system. It is no wonder that right-wingers are
> doing so well.
>
> Forget Europe. If anything happens, it will happen in the heart of the
> Empire, where shovels and the shoveling drive exist.


But Morlock, you know since Henry Kissinger, who couldn't find it in the 
phone directory, that there ain't any 'Europe'!

Caioui, p+7D!
(happy in Italy, where Bruksel (aka 'Europe') is an 'onshoni shogket' 
(distant thunder), and life is still relaxed - in my village at least)


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