Re: <nettime> Arts cut down

[Jean-Noël Montagné <jnm@rom.fr>]

In France, the situation is also dramatic, we are into the complete 
berlusconization of culture and education. It started in 2002.

But nobody, except the press and conservative parties, can say it's 
because of a crisis: the fourty biggest french companies, gathered 
into the CAC 40 indicator, have had 82 billion (yes, billion) Euros 
benefits in 2010. Money is everywhere around us. They rule the 
governements, they rule the institutions, they rule some growing 
parts of our life, and they only see us as consumers, not human 
beings.

If this open fire against culture and education is not because of a 
crisis, it could be because they feel that their most powerfull 
political opponents are artists, hackers, educators and networked 
activists. It also explain their recent actions and meeting about 
filtering the web. Sarkozy was the initiator of the first E-G8, and, 
like China, asked the world leaders to set up centralized control 
over Internet.

Cutting funds for culture and education is the first step to prepare 
wars. But we are more clever, we can set up a better world without 
them, and Internet is one of the tools to do it.

JN







> I think that the problem is bigger than just Holland.
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> [...]
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> Here in Spain the situation is also dramatic.


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