RE: <nettime> mailing list monoculture in one easy step

[Michael Benson <michael.benson@pristop.si>]

I was very sorry to receive that monoculture mail. Grief or extreme sorrow
may be going a bit far, but not genuine chagrin; I'm none too pleased with
myself about this outgoing mail either. For some it's hard to say a simple
'I'm sorry,' and I regret to say for me it ain't so; I'm regretful and full
of a sense of humiliation, shame, beans, etc. about it all. Please accept my
expression of regret, you know what I mean, in the same way that the Chinese
finally stooped to accept the official envelope (signed, sealed, on heavy
paper, etc) filled with US "regret" that their spy-vs-spyplane was
unfortunate enough to crash -- whoops -- into the much slower, twin
turbo-prop US version of the same, which (very regrettably) then had no
choice but to land, sorrowfully, trailing smoke, on Chinese territory. It
was a bad and regrettable situation, though not as much as, for example, the
US's mistaken -- whoops -- trashing by aerial bombardment of the Chinese
Embassy in Belgrade the other year, where a full-tilt, nearly grovelling
"We're very, very, VERY sorry, please believe it" was officially issued into
the airwaves by the State Department. At any rate, there's no doubt that a
sense of sorrow and regret hangs heavily, even apologetically, in the air.
I'm gonna cross-post this just in case you didn't get the message, you'll
have to take it and like it.

Cheers, MB 

#  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: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body
#  archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net