Re: <nettime> made for TV, made for social media

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

Yesterday was thrilling for its replication of 1968 in challenging 
status quo across many stolidities of thought, behavior, belief, 
acceptance, complaint, compliance, modest defiance, embrace of 
bipartisanship, hypnotic left-right cum socialist-capitalist ifatuous 
deology, intellectual vacuity secured by tenure and perquisites, 
condescension toward the unlearned, prattling of stale truisms, idle 
sophistry of argument, ample funding of compendia of little read 
volumes of propriety and profiteering.

68 tipped the rancid tub of placidity and before injection of 
precarity entered the cliche-driven market, there were a few years of 
turmoil, some fatalities at Kent State and the West Village, a few 
break-ins at FBI offices and blood splatterings at military bases, 
levitation of the Pentagon, trials of celebrity dissidents, police 
bombings of Philly rowhouses, seeds of feminism implanted, sexual 
liberation of birth control narcotics. All this before the aging 
rebels were enlisted by academia to herd the young upcoming teens 
into chutes of branding and alumnae funding.

The Capitol Liberation, brief as it was, got widespread media play 
almost effortlessly, followed by resulsive outpouring of 
opportunistic bray about democracy at risk, which by today had become 
as stale, rancid and deflated of novelty and significance as days 
before the Georgia election.

Congress pulled an all-nighter then left town with nothing to show 
for the squeals of rhetoric about Capitol Police failure, 25th 
Amendment, impeachment, clipping Trump's social media wings, 
amounting to who the fuck cares, let's get back to Covid-19 agoniste.

Is January 2021 to finally supplant May 1968 as navel gazing of the 
best and brightest (cliches abundant)? Sleepy Joe and silent Kamala 
do not appear to be prepared to combat Pence pardoning Trump than 
Gerald Ford Nixon. Bring up the bodies even if QAnon and ilk.

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