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Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment

Hey Jammer,

I am 79 years old. Sometimes I feel like simply saying, as Wittgenstein did, “Tell them I’ve had a wonderful life,” and call it a day. But there’s one thing that continues to excite and tantalize and bedevil me. It is a new vision of what it means to be a political animal in the 21st century.

Somewhere rooted in an ancient philosophy, brought forward into contemporary times, lies the way out of this mess we’re in. It is a politics beyond politics, a system that will bury the whole Left vs. Right paradigm for good.

And I know, we heard this kind of talk from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton in the ‘90s, and the new consensual model that was going to come up the middle between capitalism and socialism and create kinder, gentler human dealings forever. That model seems to have sowed the exact opposite. Now no one’s talking at all.

What’s emerging this time is different. It’s not a movement of political parties or of the government; it’s a movement of regular people, coalescing in cyberspace. It behaves uniquely and evolves organically. Within its many-chambered heart lies a secret so fucking dangerous and beautiful that it opens up all possibilities for governing ourselves in the future.

This is the Third Force.

— KL (from our latest mindbomb, AB 153: The New Left)

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