Heiko Recktenwald on Mon, 28 Jan 2019 09:54:10 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> notes from Brexania in limbo... |
Am 18/01/19 um 12:08 schrieb David Garcia: > > Finaly its a pity all these thinkers I am referencing are men.. How > much of these neo-nationalist pathologies are man made…? There is no difference. I have a brother in London with a small freehold house and family and the mother of the best frtiend of his daughter asked after the Brexit: "What is the problem, you have to leave". They dont have to leave but this does not make it better. The Brexiters had a bigger problem that is a real problem of the EU as well. There are no Europeans, not even in the European parliament. The role of nations and democracy. Democracy in a nation is something else. A nation is more like a family. The EU has changed. It is not the EU it once was with very limited competences. It is directed towards a "superstate" that caqn do everything. And there are tensions. The Brexit was one answer to those tensions. The other answer would have been to make opposition from within the EU. See the Poles, Hungary, Italy, all other nations. Ok, wer can say that thzey are terrible and special but they are just Poles and Hungarians or Italians. Why should they not have another will than Brussels? Merkel will punish them? Nothing has changed under the sun. The present chaos is owed to the fact that the EU is also a reality. Facts have changed and not just the law. We have learnt in lawschool that an exit was impossible. This was not a question of law but of the facts. The legal freedom to leave did not change the facts. Best, H. # 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: