Non, disent les Français. It remains to be seen whether politicians in Europe are willing and capable of reading that resounding “No” to the proposed correctly… What I have seen, yesterday evening on the French television and today on Dutch television, does not raise my hope: telling the public that “the message is unclear, because the extreme right and the extreme left all voted together against Europe, Chirac and Raffarin” is a clear indication of political blindness and lack of willingness to have a democratic debate about what should be in a constitution – and about what should not be in it. After all, everyone says the nay-sayers fall in two camps: those that are against a united Europe, and those that want a united Europe – but a Europe with a heart and a caring soul. Well then: it should be sufficient to convince the latter camp (the others cannot be convinced by definition). Project “Europe” has, up until now, always been about “economics” – is it so strange that people clamour for a political constellation that is capable of restraining the excesses of unmoderated liberalisation and globalisation?
Anyway, while pondering the political debate of the day, you can a look at the Zoomquilt, a collaborative art project. Yup, Flash it is; and endless too.
And For Linux Aficionados: Getting to know Puppy Linux (hey, I’m only mentioning this because of the cute name of the distribution concerned!).