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Subject: Re: BROKEN EUROPEAN DREAM
From: pit <pit@icf.de>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 17:42:53 METDST

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/ apologies if the following sounds ignorant or unappropriate
- it's a discussion , and it's about opinions, ok? - /

oh, do you still want to discuss this here?
right, Genscher and some weired German policy makers
are partly responsible for all this misery. right,
there are some people profiting from such
a war, and also right, it is a shame that this dirty
little euro-war was accepted for so long. Under which
interests this war was continued? Who needed this
sad example of another breakdown of 'european civilisation'?
Who had an interest in 'exporting conflicts' and
claiming the Serbs to become the 'evil Bastards', they
perfeclty played for the global media public.

And on the other side? for what Nation? What burried
corpse of pseudo-history? If the majority of Bavarians
would go that crazy to become a 'nation of Bavaria',
and they would start to risk a war, hey, why not let them
become 'independent'? It would not affect the big companies,
like Siemens, which are already operating transnationally.
Micronationalism is a sad kind of resistance against the
so called globalisation, which is in the end, unbound
high capital, amplified by info technology. The little
nationalist man on the street is fighting against the
symptoms he doesn't understand with models from the past
and somebody makes big money with the misery he is causing
with his misleaded anger.

Who profits from this desire to become a part of a Micronation?
the ones who think that their 'identity is to small'? From where
nationalism is feeded? Aren't there other ways to build up
'your own territory'? Don't we have symbolic forms of
constructing new kinds of identities? Doesn't have especially
the artists a responsibilty to fight Nationalism on the one
hand and fight the de-territorilizing forces of Capitalism
on the other? And isn't 'Information Fight' a much more
'democratic' form of building up 'virtual territories'
which can appear, disappear, overlap and mix without
people killing each other? And is this a simple enough
common utopia for doing 'internet art' ?

Fill your spam-o-matic with new munition...