[NetBehaviour] [spectre] looks like Slovenia might be next

Thu Jun 16 17:51:59 CEST 2011

It's interesting that you write this; I look around me and the U.S. isn't 
the country I grew up in although the roots were there of course. 
Ignorance and religion and bigotry is rampant, as is fear of science; well 
more than half don't believe in evolution (we're second from the bottom of 
industrialized countries, just above Turkey); we're 17th in education and 
dropping, lower in quality of life; our health-care is the most expensive 
in the world and offers the least; 90 % of us believe in miracles; we're 
busting unions, creating enclaved neighborhoods that smack of old-time 
racism; and the top 1 % controls 90 % of the wealth. You can feel the 
anger on the streets, among the homeless, etc. It's hopeless; with China 
haunting our debt, we're not going to pull out. And we have fools like 
Palin and Weiner taking up our time. I won't even get on about education 
here, but even in liberal NYC 6000 teachers are being let go, and the 
average class size for even pre-schoolers starts at 30 up to 60. We're 
energy gluttons and have been busy continuing our attack on W. Virginia, 
Ohio, and Pennsylvania for what little resources/ecology is left.

If we could, we'd leave, but no one would have us; we're broke.

We can't wait for the Fourth of July!

- Alan

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Ana Vald?s wrote:

> That's one of the reasons I am moving back to South America. Once, in the
> Seventies, when we were young and a bit naive, we believed in the Messianic
> Revolutions. We fought against rogue generals and corrupt politicians and we
> paid a heavy prize, prison, torture, death.
> Many of us come to Europe, the continent of our ancestors (I have Spanish
> and Italian grandfathers and grandmothers) and got asylum and a time to
> recover. Our ancestors fled from an empoverished Europe who prosecuted the
> poor and the rebelious.
> Now in South America every people in the region choose a leftist or social
> democrat alternative, not because they dream about utopia but because they
> are tired of neoliberal experiments.
> Europe is going again the way of authoritarism and control who chased away
> my ancestors from here.
> I am going back to Uruguay to find a space and a place to resist and create.
> I hope many of you in the list can be part of future projects linking the
> North and the South. Maybe we can make the global diaspora to a borderless
> creative world :)
> 
> Ana
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Simon Biggs <simon at littlepig.org.uk> wrote:
>       It is something big; sweeping global social change arising from
>       economic
>       realignment. Post-crash Europe is going through a socio-economic
>       realignment
>       that recognises the emerging dominance of international trade
>       and cultural
>       exchange by countries such as China, India and Brazil. As part
>       of this
>       process countries that once sustained values founded on social
>       democratic
>       principles are having to adapt their economies (material and
>       cultural) to
>       the instrumentalist models that underpin the emergent economies
>       capacity to
>       out-perform their competitors. The Anglo-American model has been
>       under
>       pressure at the same time, leading to the progressive collapse
>       of the social
>       contracts that underpinned them. We are moving from the European
>       millennium
>       to the Asian.
>
>       Best
>
>       Simon
> 
> 
> On 16/06/2011 10:55, "Andreas Broeckmann" <ab at dortmunder-u.de> wrote:
> 
> > the Slovenian government wants to cut the cultural budget by 38 mio
> euros.
> >
> > (is this an accidental series, or are we
> > observing the erosion of something big?)
> >
> >
> >
> > Delo - Slowenien
> > Slowenien streicht Kulturetat zusammen
> >
> > Die slowenische Mitte-Links-Regierung hat am
> > Mittwoch ihren Entwurf f?r den Haushaltsplan 2012
> > vorgelegt und will im Kulturetat 38 Millionen
> > Euro streichen. Das ist viermal so viel wie bei
> > anderen Ressorts, rechnet die linksliberale
> > Tageszeitung Delo vor und vermisst Verst?ndnis
> > f?r die gesellschaftliche Funktion der Kultur:
> > "Normalerweise sind die Mitglieder des Nationalen
> > Kulturrats eher zur?ckhaltend. Doch nun waren sie
> > so getroffen, dass sie mit Vorw?rfen an die
> > Regierung und Gegenargumenten wenig zur?ckhaltend
> > waren. Der Haushalt bedeutet tiefe Einschnitte.
> > Nun drohen auch dem Projekt Kulturhauptstadt
> > Maribor 2012 gro?e Probleme. Aufgeschoben w?rden
> > zudem Filmproduktionen, Investitionen in die Oper
> > Ljubljana, die Kunstgalerie Maribor und so
> > weiter. ... Eine sichtlich verarmte
> > Kulturlandschaft provoziert die berechtigte
> > Frage, ob unsere Regierung die grunds?tzliche
> > Rolle der Kultur f?r die Entwicklung jedes
> > einzelnen Menschen, des Volks und des Staats
> > vergessen hat." (16.06.2011)
> >
> > http://www.delo.si/mnenja/komentarji/leta-nazadovanja.html
> > (externer Link, slowenisch)
> >
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> 
> Simon Biggs
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> http://www.littlepig.org.uk/
> 
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