Mark, At 16:28 10.01.2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Opinions can no longer be manipulated; people simply believe whatever the >believe in and they are likely to act on these beliefs.
And then they get "informations" or what? I dont think the internet has allready changed a lot and medias are not the main problem. The relevant facts are all open, see the situation in Israel for example, well, the details etc of the expulsion of the palestinensians out of their old villages may not be well known, but this doesn change much. The biggest problem is not the media, whatever it is, or taboos, see Godards Ici et aileurs insofar, but that many if not most people dont want an own opinion. The germans in the Nazi state are nothing special, allthough this case is special anyway, there was no free press. People dont want to think themselves. They dont care about other people, other people in other countries are not relevant for them anyway. I saw some blogs on the situation in Iraq, btw, sort of naiv, the Tigris water project etc, maybe more historic knowledge is necessary. It is more important than psychology. And what is "democracy"????? H. # 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net