File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9903, message 233


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/


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