Bill Spornitz on Mon, 22 Apr 2002 23:23:27 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> for what it's worth: Earth day |
An earthday rant: earthday? To my mind, Earth Day is a granfalloon; that is, a mass manifestation of a nothing. For the earthday to have real meaning for more real people: a prescription for the establishment and subsequent madison avenue artifi-celebration of various global Moon and Sun days to which we could compare our earthday; to get a little worked up about and just maybe piss ourselves off enough to mount appropriate challenge (retaliatory, perhaps military, perhaps tactical, no doubt mediated) against our stinking foes, the perpetual and verminous Other (from whence we came); with the sole aim to enfranchise earthday as the mom-and-pop option, clearly market-demarcated safely in the meaningless middle-ground, as always, surrounded on all sides with lesser options, shining like apple pie against the cold light of moonday (moonight?) and the scorching and all consuming Sun Day, with all it's looting, ritual sacrifices and general unseemliness. Picking up litter is the simplest human act in response to earthday. You see: To pick up all the litter in only one major Western city would require an army, and our armies are currently busy, doing what they are trained to do. But don't worry, today is the only Earth Day this year. b # 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: [email protected] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]