genoa: how we fool ourselves

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

 ... "the insight that, actually, the potentates that met in genoa do not 
 represent 'the power' at all, that these politicians, at the very most, are at 
 the top of bureaucracies and can influence the world's course, both sides 
 always like to interpretet so full-bodiedly, at best marginally --- this worst 
 insight of all gets put aside for all participants precisely by the 'riots'", 
 as dirk schümer writes on page 41 of today's faz ... good illustration of 
 luhmann's thesis that modern society has, although largely consisting of 
 interactions, become unreachable for interactions ...  cops & robbers ... 
 either you're part of the problem or you're part of the non-solution ... we're 
 dammed into evolutionary drift ... and only a god can save us now ... kai