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| 10.05.03 (7:08 pm) [edit] |
The New Scientist published a survey of the happiest and unhappiest people on Earth. The happiest country is Nigeria followed by Mexico, Venezuela, El Salvador and Puerto Rico. Why is this not surprising, even if is counter intuitive to everything the Media tells us?
We New Zealanders should be right there at the top. We have been really ‘good’. We got rid of all our inefficient state owned enterprises, like Telecom. We have embraced ‘The Market’. We are ‘connected’.
When I buy a car, I get the car plus the ownership papers. The ownership papers are not the car, but a symbol of the car- some words on cardboard. It is the actual car that I need and use. If I get offered 'papers' but no car, something is fishy.
A swindle is a transaction in which a person or organization obtains something by deception or fraud. They exchange their ‘nothing’ for your ‘something’.
"There is a two-fold movement of decoding or deterritorializing flows on the one hand, and their violent and artificial reterritorializion on the other." (Deleuze & Guattari) CCRp723
I love the Internet the way I love TV and chocolate. I am not sure if it is good for me. I also suspect that we are being swindled. We are trading something valuable (ordinary human life) for a sack of gilded rocks; digital existence. (marc)
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