Keith Hart on Sat, 13 Feb 2016 13:26:37 +0100 (CET) |
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Hi Felix, I agree with your analysis completely. The European problem is democracy not money. But where is the democratic push going to come from? I am a europhile, I have lived in Paris for almost two decades. In recent years I have begun to see that I may have backed the wrong horse. In 1900 Europe accounted , 25% of the world's population, Europeans controlled 80% of the land surface, for several centuries they lived off unearned income extracted from the rest of the world. In 2100, 6% of the world's population will live in Europe. The old predominate in every sense, the young have higher education and no future. The people recruited from Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe to do the work that pays for the residents' pensions are harrassed and vilified. Most Europeans still hanker for their own imperial dominance and despise non-Europeans. Europe has no credible means of self-defence. A corporate logic of governance generates as its only counterweight right-wing populism. The political trend is inexorably towards fascism. And this is built on resolute denial of reality at every turn. If you read about such a society in first millennium Mesopotamia, you would be thinking of the causes of collapse. Europe is the main and permanent loser in the current world crisis. No wonder there is no serious attempt to do something to reverse existing trends. The energy goes into denial and social fragmentation is an excuse for doing nothing. Keith # 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: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: