From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> Subject: Re: Cyber Yugoslavia
>...<snip>..I am happy that a
>good number of people are feeling nostalgic about the socialist Yugoslavia
>(both what it was and, more importantly, _what it could have been_)
Nope. End-of-socialism romantics was about the realisation that it _could
NOT have been_ but we_can make it better_, and the nostaligia is about the
10 years (hell of a time) that things got worse. One step forward, two steps
back, sort of (and twist and shout).
Now it's just a question of survival (individual, mostly); coping with
another defeat and fear and egoism and scatteredness, you name it. CyberYugo
hasn't got launched yet, but there are already networks building up. I *am
not* an optimist enough to think it will change anything on a macro-scale,
but it might make some waves. It's not about cyber-exhibitionism (imo).