File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_1996/96-05-28.011, message 29


Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 19:07:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: Quetzil Castaneda <Quetzil-AT-uh.edu>
Subject: Re: Organic intellectual


yes, inddeed. the violence of the net is quite ephemeral....

(your comment reminds me of our dear friend, coyote; does not anyone else
here his howling yet on the net???)

quetzil.

At 03:44 PM 4/16/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I also wonder whether it's possible to address the masses or claim to be 
>part of the masses over the net. For the simple reason that the masses by 
>and large don't use it or speak over it. Also, I think the very medium of 
>e-mail is itself a safe retreat. No one is beaten up over the net, and no 
>one is killed, denied a job, rounded up and shot, or whatever over the 
>net. No one is oppressed on the net. This is of course not to proselytize 
>the net. But internet-activism doesn't count, from one perspective.
>
>malcolm
>
>
>
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