<nettime> Leonardo's Interlude aka History on the Rocks

[Max Herman via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

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Simplified:

1 - Tech tycoon buys declining conservative party's demagogue a term of war.
2 - The bought war requires much illegality, so immunity is also provided.
3 - Illegality applies to starting, prosecuting, and ending said war.
4 - The spoils are to be allocated non-legally to demagogue supporters.
5 - The spoils are who gets to build the green planetary infrastructure.
6 - Only after the mess is generations old will conservatives cop to it.
7 - The M.O. is that of the organized illegality syndicate or family.


Better:

1 - US civil society points out the demagogue party's true nature.
2 - Accountability is preserved by non-demagogue elements.
3 - The illegality is kept to a minimum by figurative sunlight.
4 - Democracy is not eliminated completely.
5 - The war is resolved with moderate illegality and intensity levels.
6 - Demagogue party leaders' inadequate intelligence is augmented by others.
7 - Giant global CF of the twentieth century is not repeated.


Ideal:

1 - Adversaries are persuaded to skip the war.
2 - Cultural intelligence based on shared humanity persuades.
3 - Shared humanity is based on Experience Networks.
4 - Leonardo da Vinci optimizes healthy EN's for all parties.
5 - Healing of planet, people, infrastructure, and democracy takes off.
6 - Humanity gets an A+ grade for the 21st century.


Links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagogue
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_Union_speech
https://www.pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blogs/news/leonardo-da-vinci-a-new-film-from-ken-burns-to-air-on-pbs-november-18-and-19-2024/
ExperienceDemocracy2024.org/experience-democracy-is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEO-LH2AFiY


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Experience, MN


D, E, D, F#

Town where I dwell
Some call it Midwest hell
I call it right on time
Rings out like a bell

Farms and lakes abound
We all go ramblin' around
The buzzin' and the bugs
We like that rocky sound

D, E, F#, G

O, Fitzgerald
Rogers Nelson
Bobby Stinson
(Brenda Ueland)

E, G

Experience for sure

Ancient word for veda
Italian esperienza
All the verb we're talkin'
Like a true bonanza

Chorus

G, A, C

If they say
You rubes have lost your way
Then all a summer's day

A, C

Unleash and let it play

Lead

Right wings are a flappin'
Big plans about to happen
Hamilton reminds us
You win by patient scrappin'

Chorus

Outro


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Simple story:

GOP is now a demagogue party (party in decline taken over by opportunist)
Every demagogue has backers
Backers can't win by normal legal politics so they hire the demagogue
The demagogue's purpose is to win illegally
The hijacked party has granted immunity and agreed on price
Win what?
Two tasks: the Red Fort and the Red Force.
Create, by illegal means, a GOP bloc of electoral votes which wins at 50% with 40% of people
The Red Fort is necessary because of the GOP's demographic and cultural decline i.e. irreversible unpopularity
Remove minority and women's rights in Red states so democratic voters leave
The Great Gerrymander is what it is
The Red Force is to confront China
Pick a fight and humiliate the CCP
Heat the climate so hot only friends can afford AC
Since both are so unpopular they must be done illegally
Very illegally
This is the demagogue's job
Decrease Democrats' electoral power to 2/3 of a person (make 40% = 60%)
Fight the China war without Democratic or democratic oversight
Give the spoils to their own
Only convincing China to surrender peacefully can preserve democracy
Only Leonardo can convince China to surrender peacefully
Only Leonardo can convince the Russian people to reject their sleazocracy
Crypto is corrupto- and coopto-currency (who's not on the take?)
The demagogue's illegalities will include dismantling US rule of law
There can be no Democratic or democratic interference
It's a bad Ian Fleming novel
It's as stupid as Mussolini in 1919 and his imitators
Crapping on democracy will only make the CCP stronger
EM is far too doltish
The GOP is crapulently ignorant intellectually
They get high on their own supply
Tell it like it is
GOP is the demagogue party from Federalist 85
Luckily their idiocy is very noticeable

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The new Ken Burns film, the second half of which premieres tonight on PBS

Mention Burns film?  Yes, that's OK

Other factors about election:

Conservative party is now a demagogue party
What is a demagogue?  (takeover of a party in decline)
How do they function?  (suspension of accountability)
What is the antidote?  (reconstituted responsibility)
Leonardo's role?  (renewed dedication to experience and experiment)
Lincoln's requirement: (faith that right makes might)


Demagogue stakeholders:

Tech corps, to build out green infrastructure or security nightmare
Demographic and culturally struggling groups
The wealthy
Foreign autocracies
Corrupt interests
People on the take
The scared, desperate, greedy, and unprincipled


Demagogue goals:

Immunity for the demagogue
Disable institutions of constitutional democracy
Accelerate climate as a lever of global pressure
Coerce all regions to confront China
Sow chaos within US society by any means necessary as needed
Build a Red Fort of conservative electoral interests
Establish a 40%-60% electoral bias favoring conservatives
Outsource illegal attacks on the opposition
Dismantle all bridges to a non-conservative future

Methods:

corruptocurrency, cooptocurrency, cryptobribery
targeted automated unaccountable rhetoric and aesthetics
psychosexual button-pushing by way of smart phones
radical judicial regression
overt intimidation of all critics
extreme force and fraud if needed
sowing panic, fear, and despondence in opposition

The solution:

Tell it like it is: we have a demagogue party in power
Teach and explain how the Framers warned of this (Hamilton, FP 85)
Permission to treat the witness as hostile
Speak uncomfortable truths after careful consideration
Be clear that demagogue politics are modeled on organized crime not rule of law
Transform the China conflict by peaceful artistic change on their part
Set aside purist doctrines of politics and economics (Marxism) for hybrid reality
Make the truth aesthetically and rhetorically compelling
Maintain a big tent (moderates, progressives, and conservatives of conscience)
Full court press: theory and practice, all the liberal arts, network intelligence, all media, full participation

Big picture:

Deep historical tradition is on the side of right makes might, not Machiavelli or Julius Caesar
Show respect and decency toward the suffering of those who follow the demagogue
Read the Federalist Papers and relate them to the Leonardo film (key word "experience")
Help conservatives of conscience weaken, constrain, and sideline their demagogue captor

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Notes
7 weeks till handover
publicize as much as poss
red fort and red force (retrenchment defense and offense)
demagogue identification
voting interest and propertied interest
suspension of legal norms
2 main projects
overseas autocrats
governance by corruption
corruptocurrency
cryptobribery
cooptocurrency
patronage system
spoils system
organized crime is the paradigm (Cohn)
publicizing is the best amelioration
counter-message rhetoric and aesthetic
crowdsource and offshore illegality (watergate)
purge military and civil service
coerce media
enlist tech bros
can faith traditions moderate and ameliorate
Francis' encyclical on Dante's esperienza
veda as experience, Sufi, Taoism, Buddhism, indigenous
Lincoln, Hamilton, Franklin, Federalist
Heather Cox Richardson, Wengrow, Burns
Engage with state and local opposition parties
Full participation mode required
avoid purism for pragmatism
Gates and the Codex Leicester
Luttig and similar
Study the history of demagogues, what has worked to counter
Civil society and the public sphere
Tokarczuk and EU allies
China dialogue without demonization or undue deference
Habermas, incomplete modernity
much late 20th and early 21st c. theory has been coopted
Bannon is post-enlightenment (post voting, law, rights)
Tech bros are intellectually impaired, badly
Traditional conservatives also intellectually exhausted
Cryptocarrots
Cryptocrats
Corruption is a feature not a bug of demagogue parties
Sharing in the crime of corruption ensures loyalty
Accomplices are dissuaded from tattling

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