Hoe langer je dit artikel blijft lezen, hoe relevanter het wordt voor de Piratenpartij. Ik wilde zelf een introductie geven van de inhoud, maar volgens mij kan ik dat sowieso niet beter dan dat Adam Curtis het zelf heeft gedaan, dus plak ik zijn introductie hier maar gewoon even onder. (Adam Curtis inderdaad, de maker van The Century of the Self en The Power of Nightmares.) In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No-one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them. But the moment you look into what the Kurds are fighting for - what you discover is absolutely fascinating. They have a vision of creating a completely new kind of society that is based on the ideas of a forgotten American revolutionary thinker. He wanted to create a future world in which there would be no hierarchies, no systems that exercise power and control individuals. And the Kurds in Kobane are trying to build a model of that world. It means that the battle we are watching night after night is not just between good and evil. It is also a struggle of an optimistic vision of the future against a dark conservative idea drawn from the past. It is a struggle that may also have great relevance to us in the west. Because the revolutionary ideas that have inspired the Kurds also shine a powerful light on the system of power in Britain today. They argue that we in the west are controlled by a new kind of hierarchical power that we don’t fully see or understand.
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:38:37 +0000
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