[p2p-research] 2010 will be a hot year in the US

[Michel Bauwens]

this may well be true, but he has certainly done his homework researching,
and expresses his ideas in a very clear manner ... but indeed, I share
Kevin's feeling that we now must focus on the construction of the new,
rather than lament the passing of the old one ..

I'm also more optimistic about the new youth culture that is being born now,
very social, very engaged, very constructive ... not at all what he
describes as a narcissic game generation ...

but I think he also is thinking in that direction ..

Michel

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 7:23 AM, Ryan Lanham <rlanham1963 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Kevin Carson <
> free.market.anticapitalist at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 1/12/10, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > VIA
>> > http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/12/forecast-2010.html#more
>> >
>> > A LOT more interesting stuff in that article,
>>
>> What Kunstler says is true, but it's only one side of it.  He strikes
>> me as a stereotypical liberal who pines for the days of the post-WWII
>> middle class consensus where every aspect of life was regulated by
>> "the proper authorities."  He has no appreciation at all for the
>> network culture, its resilience, or the network generation's potential
>> for routing around many of the obstacles created by Peak Oil and
>> finding cheaper relocalized alternatives without some sort of big
>> government liberal Manhattan Project to supervise the process.
>>
>>
> It is fair to classify him as a political (not economic) liberal.  He is
> well-known for dystopian futurism and a great amount of criticism of
> conventional modern America.  I know this because having heard my views
> people have several times referred me to his work.  He has written in and
> around the Atlantic (a magazine I consider America's best) for a number of
> years.  He's a well-known center-left intellectual in the sort of Ivy League
> sense of the term intellectual.  I have looked at his blog and some of his
> books...The Geography of Nowhere...probably 10 years ago.  Maybe 15.
> Sentimentalism for a post-WW2 middle class America is also fair...I share
> that particular sentimentality.
>
> Ryan
>
> Ryan
>
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