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Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics<br />

no opposition<br />

So, where would we look in the EU for the possibilities of articulation of opposition,<br />

even before acts of opposition itself? In the consistent 4% of people that is not<br />

satisfied at all – 20 million people – there is no overlap of potential points of<br />

collaboration, ranging as they do from ultra nationalist to left activists.<br />

All of the above amounts to ever more perception of atomization by individuals<br />

whose wants <strong>and</strong> needs synch with ever growing formats that group them in trends<br />

<strong>and</strong> target groups.<br />

The coming decade will therefore see the European nation states’ monopoly of<br />

knowledge-power crumble; the ever more digitally literate middle class will script its<br />

own forms of solidarity (with its nationally non-affiliated community), breaking with<br />

the 19th century democratic institutions (starting with the health, education <strong>and</strong><br />

security systems) <strong>and</strong> triggering new class wars between the disempowered majority<br />

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