[diggers350] Re: e-LITISM (UK and beyond)

[Rory Kett]

This rather long piece on the merits and otherwise of email / internet is 
quite useful, the main question I'd like to ask is has anyone thought of 
printing it off and using it as a master copy for distribution to the large 
numbers of people (activists included) who won't have been able to read it 
as it was sent electronically?

Surely that is a way of finding some middle ground between the technophiles 
and techno-luddites.

What the internet / email allows is for someone to produce a document and 
make it available for anyone who thinks it's worth wider distribution to run 
off a master and use this to produce a quantity of paper copies to be 
circulated by more traditional means outside of control of the state, and 
around the world at speeds which were not possible a few years ago.

Basically it's a tool, like a hammer or screwdriver, you can use them for 
something constructive and worthwhile, or do a Peter Sutcliffe with them. 
It's not the tool but how you use it that's either selfish and futile or 
socially positive.

Rory.

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