From: Wim Nusselder (wim.nusselder@antenna.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 01 2005 - 21:16:50 BST
Dear Platt,
You
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 2:24 PM
> Great to hear from you.
Yes, I know I've got friends in cyberspace, but I've got a lot of other
things on my mind these days, mostly connected to a new and highly
stimulating job.
As you expressed interest in the results of the Dutch referendum on the EU
'constitution': according to preliminary (but probably quite accurate)
outcomes 63% of the 62% of potential voters that turned up voted 'no' (37%
voted 'yes', 38% didn't turn up) despite some 90% of the politicians having
campaigned for 'yes' (only the extreme right and the extreme left campaigned
for 'no')... All these 3 figures are exceptional by Dutch standards in the
realm of European elections.
'No' voters apparently wanted to express a lot of negative feelings against
politics in general, against not being involved in politics in general and
the European project in particular. 'Nationalism' is not the right word. A
'nationalist Dutchman' is something like a contradiction in terms. That
seems to be the same kind of sentiment that was expressed by the LPF-voters
(the party of the murdered Pim Fortuyn) in 2002. It is not so much 'backward
thinking' that politicians in general (not only 'the left'; hardly any
politician in the Netherlands would want to be called 'nationalist') have to
come to terms with. It is voters who don't want to (are not able to?) dig
into real argumentation for different options for the future of their
society and nevertheless have strong feelings about the politicians who
sometimes do and sometimes are just busy 'selling' themselves in every way
that helps their ego's.
> I think Bo's point is that subject-object thinking dominates the
> intellectual level and thus defines it.
Do YOU consider that a proper way of defining something? Is life defined by
bacteria that dominate bio-mass??
With friendly greetings,
Wim
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