human being on Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:48:49 +0100 (CET) |
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hi Dan, thanks for sharing your sense of things. i do not disagree that ideology may not be the only factor, yet still find it is a predominant one- throughout .US society no less. it can be seen in prevailing .US diplomacy, with Colin Powell in determining a 'change in attitude' between .US and .IR relations, it did not go over well as it is not reflecting, accurately, the nature of the relationship as it stands, it would seem, at the same time you have the Red Crescent and the Red Cross working side by side in a great loss of human life and culture. That this is an indication of how the role of institutions of the .UN and member nations as being a relevant and important structure may be one way of seeing how one-sided the .US position remains, ideologically, 'a change in attitude' is that the .US is not in charge, it is one of many members working together not dictating what will be nor how it will be. well, in the 'homeland' people seem to be a little restless with this official 'attitude' too. you can see it in the investigations publicly launched, in the hair-trigger responses to any threats, the unknown in a land which has worked to suppress facts and truths that do not support a very narrow political agenda, and now legal accounting awaits. watch how much information is controlled, by structures, by people, in the .US, as it is only that certain sanctioned realities are to be allowed- the DNC chair has to be asked to stop attacks on Dean (who everyone, in my opinion, should line up behind to make a charge for the Whitehouse, as he is what is needed- unless one wants what happens if you ignore this force-- the unrepresented and unrepresentable society so far behind their families, qualities of life, that reason is hard to exist to make a leap into voting, it is an irrational us or them scenario, which will come about one way or the other-- either a cultural transformation of values will occur, to change course, or a battle to the end, of private power denying the public its reality, will end up in an eventual violent chaos...) (this is to say, if 2004, only DEAN as there is only mediocrity or not-enough change to challenge the ruling party on principles-- if Clintons and others do not get behind Dean, including the DNC machinery, and he bolts, good-- the DNC is a goner, they are worth- less besides their own babyboomer myth- making, self-importance, and celebration of status quo achievements, incremental. Dean, however human, has the guts to say it like it is, and everyone is pouncing, especially spineless Joe Leiberman who belongs in an Enron settlement movement for his political stances and moral hypocrisy. If the .US can get its own house in order, it should be able to relate within a .UN structure, and renormalize basic relations. so to wake up the citizenry to what awaits, the big changes, and the need to start at it. it is like moving the firmament, at least for what exists now in the psychology in the .US, everyone is needed to work together to make it happen. the last people to help will be those with vested interests, such as political institutions who believe short-term, as it is their term. beyond baby-boomerism. beyond the selfish, contrite, egomaniacal. people think those in the .US are arrogant to speak up, yet to live here everyone wants one to shut up, to be silent, we need to find a way to be on the same side, there is a time to fall behind, put differences aside, for the larger goal. Dean's putting it on the line-- deserves ultimate support for this. it cannot be isolated, by Safire or any others. you know what happens when there is not a lot of news, bad things like plane crashes. It is time to support Dean as the .US political candidate versus the GO-Partisan party-- it is middle-of-the-road, there is a chance to make the changes-- and if someone is going to go the distance, everyone needs to go with him. This is not about private politics, but the survival of a public democratic state. Some are best in politics, nothing is perfect, yet if it is close enough to real- with everyone in it the changes can happen peacefully. we are on the same side, everyone who wants to change to face what is missing in policies today, to date. and the only person who is giving those speeches, who has the mind, the meaning, the reason, is Dean. this is it. the Clintons should get behind him too, as it is bigger than they are, even if they cannot imagine it. It is too important to bureaucratize. didn't plan to write this, yet, given the givens, there is a total attack underway, never know what will happen-- so i believe at least-- it is time to fall behind Dean and start to march into the Whitehouse in 2004. that's a future. this is middle-of-the-road, institutionalists try to make this be 'radical', and this is who Karl Rove handpicked for Bush II to go against. they picked the fight, and he is ready to go... brian brian thomas carroll: research-design-development architecture, education, electromagnetism http://www.electronetwork.org/bc/ # 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: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net