Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 03:38:52 +0100 From: "Gerald O'Connell" <goc-AT-gacoc.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: ...says Internet working against separatism (Canada) In message <l03130300b32334c26fae-AT-[131.220.244.195]>, Heiko Recktenwald <UZS106-AT-IBM.rhrz.uni-bonn.de> writes >I believe the Internet will have the opposite effect and that it will >contribute greatly to the (hopefully peaceful) balkanization of Canada. >The reason is simply that separatist movements from Quebec to Scotland to >Hawaii are ubiquitous. However, they have a problem in organizing their >supporters. Internet does this quickly and efficiently as we see for >example on the Hawaiian Sovereignty List <kanakamaoliallies-l-AT-hawaii.edu>. >In addition, Internet organizes separatists internationally and in total I >expect there are more people in separatist movements world-wide than there >are anti-separatists in any one country. Thus strong international >coalitions of separatists will form even though they may have little else >in common. > Thus over C21 I predict the U.N. will grow to thousands of member >states. For this reason I keep appealing to international experts to work >out the details for PEACEFUL recognition of an emerging nation whether it >is Basque or Kosovo or Nuxalk. Nice in principle, and more freedom rather than less is a laudable end in itself, but I can't help worrying about this: will we have 2000 greedy bullies instead of 200 ? Maybe the real thing to aim for is the end of the nation state per se. If you can persuade me that the balkanisation of Canada is a necessary step along the evolutionary path towards the end of the nation-state, then I'll support it all the way... Gerald O'Connell http://www.gacoc.demon.co.uk/ --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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