| Ivo Skoric on Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:58:10 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> It's the law!-Or is it the money? |
Both Bushes - H & W were at Yale law school, I believe. I don't know whether the junior graduated, though, or got his degree 'honorably'. I agree that there is the 'man behind the curtain' and that 'lawyers' are just 'devil advocates'. The situation is, however, that the 'man behind the curtain' is, obviously, elusive. He tricks us into believing that he does not exist. Pleads fifth amandement (in the U.S.) or article six (in Ireland) or whatever - while he pushes his advocates to the front line. I basically wanted to draw a parallel between the now defunct Eastern bloc communist system (example: Yugoslavia) and the very much alive Western bloc capitalist one (example: USA). My feeling is that lawyers in the later system serve the same role of being the connective tissue of the system, that the communist party members were in the former system. I don't think that lawyers per se are bad people because of that. Some of them are actually very good people and my very good friends - just as in former Yugoslavia there were members of the communist party that were honest, intelligent, hardworking and humorous, that wanted to make things better for everybody. They failed, though. And the 'man behind the curtain' had the best of them. And now many of the people in former Yugoslavia, particularly in Serbia, are blaming the 'man behind the curtain', or, rather, the 'ogre from the tunnel' (Blagojevic's film "Pretty Villages, Pretty Flames") for their ill-fortune. But the man is so elusive - because he lives inside us. Inside each one of us - lawyers and/or party members just have more responsibility how they will respond to his urges, because their collective actions can affect the given societies much more than actions of the rest of us. Best Regards, ivo Ivo Skoric 1773 Lexington Ave New York NY 10029 212.369.9197 [email protected] http://balkansnet.org _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold