<nettime> ***SPAM*** Re: what if we were all right but all wrong?

[morlockelloi@yahoo.com]

The understanding and manipulation of masses has become a 
technology-based activity. Like transportation or food production.

Reflexes and intuition in activism from the last few centuries are 
becoming irrelevant in this regard - this is what 'activists' generally 
refuse to understand, despite repeated and consistent failures.

'Knowledge' how to stir political movements based on Marx, '68, etc, is 
as relevant as knowing how to hunt lunch with bow and arrows: when you 
enter supermarket with those, you will be tased, hamstringed, and beaten 
for a good measure. What puzzles me is that these people, after they 
recover, go back to practice bow and arrow to 'do better next time.'

The myth that, unlike everything else, political technology is at the 
18th century level, and that all it takes is to gospel the truth (via 
Internet this time), which will set everyone free, is the main reason 
that they will continue to fail.

> much I know of Italy the country also Alex comes from.  In Italy we are
> literally engulfed by (critical or not, same) intellectualoids swimming
> into academy/politics and unable to get anything done, or even
> understood by the masses, completely detached from the actual legwork it
> takes to carry on a political campaign or initiative.


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