Re: <nettime> Not One

[mp <mp@aktivix.org>]

--- if you don't know it, condemned to repeat it, farce, tragedy and
collapse:

On 12/10/2020 10:45, John Young wrote:
> 
>> So long as heirarchical structures endure, with the few managing the
>> many from any ideological or intellectual top down control, it is
>> unlikely much will change for most humans. Royalty of thought is so
>> deeply embedded in "advanced" societies it is nearly unavoidable.
> 
>> Being on top is inevitably corrupting. "Best" minds, talents and
>> skills are as inequal, unjust, self-satisfying, collegial and
>> standards enforcing as "best" wealth, conviction, rewards, titles,
>> perquisites, followers, believers.

    “The intellectuals cast a veil over the dictatorial character of
bourgeois democracy not least by presenting democracy as the absolute
opposite of fascism, not as just another natural phase of it where the
bourgeois dictatorship is revealed in a more open form.”

    – Bertolt Brecht

	"...The opposition from the left, led by Léon Blum, strongly opposed
this “fascist” practice, but it is significant that once the Left took
power with the Popular Front, it asked parliament in June 1937 for full
powers in order to devalue the franc, establish exchange control, and
impose new taxes. As has been observed, this meant that the new practice
of legislation by executive [governativo] decree, which had been
inaugurated during the war, was by now a practice accepted by all
political sides.”

	- Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception
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