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Back then, this was published, in print, in a computer magazine where I first read it. Klein likens the - then emerging - internet to a labyrinth. I wonder how much of this assessment still holds true nowadays.
Some quotes:

• 1998 is still a dangerously nascent stage in the Internet, while a trillion dollar nest of dragons sets up shop.
• Simulating revolt is more fun, and a better investment. This is true in casinos, malls, games, the Web. But consider what sim-revolt implies as a broader model for public life? We pretend that the labyrinth of the Web makes us free of the global corporate program that builds and owns it.
• Recently, there is talk of voting on the Web. Is a cross between ergonomic fascism and the shopping mall the best frame of mind for making political decisions?
• Just because we can subvert the Web by saying nasty things or engaging in cyber-sex in the margins, or downloading information cheaply, does not mean that we are subverting any core reality.

From William S. Burroughs' "The Electronic Revolution," 1970. Screenshot to preserve the weird formatting, or lack thereof. The quote mocks the "auditing" technique of Scientology which Burroughs had joined for a while in the 1960s.
More dips from the collection "Holy Crap Someone Printed This:"

• If your trick no work you better run.
• Its good for young and old man and beast and is known as SEX.
• Fictional dailies retroactively cancelled the San Francisco earthquake and Halifax explosion as journalistic hoaxes, and doubt released from the skin law extendible and ravenous, consumed all the facts of history.
• The priests postulated and set up a hermetic universe of which they were the axiomatic controllers. In so doing they became Gods who controlled the known universe of the workers. They became Fear and Pain, Death and Time.