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alternative culture is also adopting the Y2K hysteria with a passion--instead of seeing the millenium mark as an opportunity to attack some of the oppression of the system, even the anti-technology elements of alternative culture choose to embrace the Y2K bug hype as their principle hope--if the computers fail, everything will fail, the world will end, we will triumph, the system will discover how stupid it is, all those people in suits, stupid! ha ha!
in fact, this view suits corporations fine--because the hype leads to investment in newer computer systems, the solution of choice--and the hiring of programmers,etc.
advanced business-think has hated suits for nearly as long as alternative culture has --see Commodify Your Dissent for the process by which alternative radical culture has been co-opted for commercial purposes at every level.
Also, it might be interesting to note that the gray flannel suit, the dress of the "organization man", was once a revolutionary costume--there was a progressive left-wing movement in the 1930s US that saw science as the solution to capitalism's ills-the gray flannel suit was supposed to be the uniform of the technocrat, the future man… Of course "technocrat" changed… Book by Andrew Ross, Strange Weather.
computer tech is only a tool nothing revolutionary about it
