Louis Rawlins via nettime-l on Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:58:42 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Europe and the MAGA mind virus 

Deeply appreciating the resources and the inquiry from everybody.

Thanks for the generosity of time and thought.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 3:00 AM <nettime-l-request@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

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> Values are actions. Words are not enough.
>
> The good thing about being with your back against the wall is that there
> is only one way you can walk.


Robert Greene called this "The Death Ground Strategy" in *The 33 Strategies
of War*. The gist is that you lead your army against a cliff to fight
against a navy attacking by sea. One way out: you fight like hell.

Thinking of that book reminds me too, if folks here are familiar with
General Sherman's "March to the Sea". Today, the work happening via DOGE in
the current US administration (mass firings, federal real estate sales and
more) reminds me of Sherman's preferred speed-to-attack before people can
get their bearings.

Here in the United States, we often laud the end of the Civil War, but
gloss over the dehumanizing loss of life as Sherman's army razed across
Georgia looting farms and displacing families. My family was among them and
were moved to become sharecroppers in Arkansas.

Subsistence matters, indeed! :)

Louis


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