File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1999/lyotard.9907, message 92


Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 14:17:10 -0700
From: hugh bone <hughbone-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Das Capital


To:  All

Imaginary scenario: 

The fascists won WWII, and formed a
World Government, an unholy alliance
consisting of Russia, Germany, Italy,
Spain, and Japan. 

They annexed corporations, all of them, 
in all countries, They did not send troops to occupy
the conquered nations, but every corporation 
on Earth was controlled by a MEMBER of the BOARD
assigned by the "WG".

Half a century later, except for the elimination
of rebellious protesters, social and economic
evolution produced the same mix of
corporate power, the same distribution of wealth,
the same dispersion of ethnic peoples of different
skin-color and culture, that we enjoy now,
at the end of the 20th century.

Only a few dissident groups were ever concerned
about free speech, and they were ignored.  

They were ignored because they were of no
consequence.  

The middle and upper classes in the
industrialized nations valued the cheap products
and services available from paid and unpaid
workers in distant countries, and available from
legal and illegal immigrant populations of their own
countries.

They adored the entertainments, celebrity, 
and vicarious enjoyments provided by the rich and 
famous, and their own (one in a hundred million)
chances of joining them via state-sponsored lotteries.

In such an IMAGINARY world, who would need free speech?

Cheers,
          
Hugh


   

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