Re: <nettime> Question of the Don

[Heiko Recktenwald via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Am 24.08.23 um 07:14 schrieb Rahul Goswami via nettime-l:
> "The case of Trump makes this obvious. If he is elected again, 
> democracy's days are likely numbered. The aspect of collective 
> regulation (rule by law) is obviously flouted by Trump and his 
> followers,"


I cant stand it anymore. The Don and democracy. Democracy is for 
everybody and what he did was an experiment in the law of states. Le 
contrat social. People can make stupid decisions but those decisions are 
their own. People in his name did try a revolution by occupying the Hill.


I dont want to talk of Doha, China and so on. Good or bad? But to 
understand the meaning of democracy lets take an example. Holy beings 
against the devil. There was a president who did not sign a treaty with 
the EU. He was removed by the street in some town for whatever reasons. 
Holy happenings. And the EU tells us: Yes, that was freedom. It was 
larceny with the help of some friends.


And now we have the good against the bad. Neutral institutions like the 
ICRC are insulted. The status naturalis. There are a lot of things that 
are much more important than democracy and freedom in the sense of Anne 
Applebaum.


Best, H.

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