Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

2016-06-10 Thread Frank Rieger
On 10 Jun 2016, at 13:07, Patrice Riemens wrote: > It has a lot to do with numbers. These, surprisingly, looked to be in > our favor. Gatherings were ever bigger, the amount of people and > resources mobilized were ever larger. It was probably a delusion. Just > as the numbers

Re: The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

2016-06-10 Thread biella
__ ' *** It has a lot to do with numbers. These, surprisingly, looked to be in our favor. Gatherings were ever bigger, the amount of people and resources mobilized were ever larger. It was probably a delusion. Just

The 'Jake' Appelbaum case, or the rise and fall of celebrities

2016-06-10 Thread Patrice Riemens
The social, and political 'sad demise' (the Hinglish word for death) of Jacob 'Jake' Appelbaum is for me symptomatic, and symbolic, for an epoch definitively coming to its close. To me at least, it resonates with the words of Rieger and Gonggrijp, years ago at a CCC conference: "we lost the