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Subject: Re: <nettime> virtual fascism From: { brad brace } <bbrace@netcom.com> Date: 4 Aug 1997 21:27:06 +0200 * * * * * To: nettime-l@Desk.nl In-Reply-To: <01IM18S6YUZ691VXCQ@rzs-hm.si> Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9708041232.A14710-0100000@netcom10> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-nettime-l@Desk.nl Precedence: bulk The advanced nations have entered a prefascist social condition that will ripen in various ugly ways if the market's imperatives prevail, if commerce and finance refuse to compromise their objectives. The same social-economic forces are again in deep collision, agitating the same irrationalities and extreme reactions that arose from the last great upheaval of industrial revolution. When enough people feel cornered -- confused and powerless, deprived of security and ignored by authorities -- some will be drawn into extreme and violent forms of political expression. Governing elites preoccupied with perfecting the market system and curtailing the old social guarantees seem unaware that they may be stimulating these symptoms -- adding to the social stress -- in the name of reform. (wg) -- { brad brace } <<<< bbrace@netcom.com >>>> ~finger for pgp The_12hr-ISBN-JPEG_Project ftp.netcom.com/pub/bb/bbrace continuous hypermodern ftp.teleport.com/users/bbrace imagery online ftp.rdrop.com/pub/users/bbrace all-the-time ftp.pacifier.com/pub/users/bbrace -- Usenet-news: alt.binaries.pictures.12hr/ a.b.p.fine-art.misc Mailing-list: listserv@netcom.com / subscribe 12hr-isbn-jpeg Reverse Solidus: http://www.teleport.com/~bbrace/bbrace.html -- __ --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de