Date: Thursday, December 2, 1999, 10:00:23 AM
Subject: The 20th Century
It is ironic that the WTO conference is being held in Seattle WA, a city
that spored Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon books and Nivarna.
If globalisation is inevitable (or this particular brand that is being
interpreted by the West Coast Techno-Right) then how come there is one of
the largest protests happening since Vietnam occuring in Seattle at this
moment? What agency does technology such as the internet have when tens of
thousands of people take to the streets and let down the tyres of Boeing’s
aircraft or weld up the gates on
the Microsoft campus? This is more proof that Marshall McLuhan and his late
90′s revisionist cronies are wrong. The medium is enculturated because this
is where the people live.