Patrice, this is an interesting perspective, but how do you expect NRA supported armed trumpians, trained fascists and various paramiltary goons training full day at shoot-all video games, backed likely by the above quoted corporate rulers and with the enthusiastic external support of Russian hackers not to win a civil war?
lorenzo > On 3. Mar 2019, at 12:18, Patrice Riemens <patr...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > > On 2019-03-03 12:10, Keith Hart wrote: >> The corporations already are the lawmaker of the world. > (...) > > With other words the cyberpunk writers of the late 80s/90s were right from > the start. The not evenly distributed future has arrived for real, and maybe > a little sooner than anticipated. So we can fear that its 'resolution', > Keith's world war, will hit a town next to yours ahead of schedule also. I > don't bet on a 'world' war, but I was looking at ... > > ... Michael Cohen's final declaration before Congress to the effect that > civil war would be the likely outcome of the #realdonaldtrump loosing > re-election in 2020. It made me wonder if that was such a bad thing > (cynically speaking). After all, the USA had one civil war before, and it > 'resolved' a rather big issue: slavery. (it did not solution racism, but > that's another story). Probably a civil war would be the only way to address > the _real_ problem of the 99%, especially the third that forms Trump's > presently unshackable base, and which is to completely overhaul the economy > at a much lower level of production and consumption. Since thanks to the > second amendment, a civil war in the US will be fought with low intensity > weapons, the material damage will be extensive, but the environmental damage > limited - its impact even positive. > > Sorry for being so cynical, but I believe this is the only realistic scenario > to achieve a much sanner post-capitalist world, with the added bonus of > getting rid of the American Empire, the biggest threat to the planet, but > fortunately heading the Roman one way ... > > Cheers to all, all the same, > p+7D! > # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission > # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org > # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
