[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net | Re: <nettime> genoa redux digest

["wade tillett" <super89@bigfoot.com>]

> we are very safe with our language, speaking on this street corner;
we
> are looking into the faces of ignorance, faces which will be utterly
> transformed with the passing of this evening, this night, this
coming
> dawn.
....
> no one understands that we, speaking in an unknown language, are
> responsible for their future in a completely irrevocable manner.
....
> Sender: nettime-l-request@bbs.thing.net
> Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
....
(connect thread A to thread B)
(language = fence)
....
> Perhaps the greatest provocation, and the most revealing was the
> fence itself, the elite getting on with its serious work (and how
they
> suffer in the process as Tony Blair so eloquently puts it) for the
good of
> humanity,  not understood by peaceful protestors (stupid), or
violent ones
> (criminals). The flim-flam is immense, the results, in relation to
all the
> initiatives and treaties Bush will not sign, a mouse. And the fence
> necessary precisely because people are not stupid. The fence and the
> violence of the carbinieri necessary because people are not stupid,
can see
> that despite the immense social wealth created by technological and
other
> creativities, present global capitalism is more voracious than ever
before,
> must find profits in health care and education; must sell more
armaments,
> enclose more land. More voracious, it must be more violent. And
well, these
> things happen. Or are opposed.
....
> GENOA: 'THESE THINGS HAPPEN'
> John Barker: <harrier@easynet.co.uk>



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