________________________________________________________________________________ > what do you want? i don't want: to put so much of my time into a medium and then it becomes yet another tv; an operating system that was free and is stable but takes 3 minutes to boot; to live in a city where all the people who move in immediately get sucked up by content- free multimedia upstarts; toywar platforms that are less fun than an average arcade game; academic media theorists who don't give a shit about wetware and its social environment; private shit on public lists; public shit on private lists; wired to be the only approach that produces mass affection; that people w/o the technical knowlegde are competely extradited to monsters like aol ("millions now online have never seen the net"); http://windowsmagazine.com/columns/explorer/2000/02.htm; to see once more that glance in the eyes of the n-tv (german business news tv channel) anchorpeople when they announce the dow or dax is up 2% by 11 in the morning and they've just earned $1,000 themselves and that's all this whole planet that is smoothly animated in the background is about; to see more and more people you'd actually consider cool consider things cool that are worst internet mulimedia broadband whatever hype-stream and nothing more (this is a very important point, i guess: you can shout "don't believe the hype!" out of any situation or context, but it will only work out if that whole setting and your position is attractive itself, like if you are public enemy and release it as a 12", bingo. i think that, especially to attract young people, a _movement_ doesn't only have to be _radical_, but it has to look like they will make _cool_ friends there. most of them go for it to find a girl- or boyfriend, i'm absolutely convinced. not sure if this is true for net.movements though. should be. "me and my girl-/boyfriend first met on an instant messager"? what the fuck: "we first met by reclaiming the net"!) ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org