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The Yes Men approach: > AG: How did you get started? > MB: We got started by accident when Andy put up a fake website for the World Trade Organization in 1999
by mirimir 8y ago
The Yes Men approach:
> AG: How did you get started?
> MB: We got started by accident when Andy put up a fake website for the World Trade Organization in 1999 and people started writing for advice and questions. Eventually people started inviting us to conferences and we realized we didn’t have to be the WTO to go. Pretty soon we had been to half a dozen conferences. No one objected no matter how ridiculous the thing we proposed.
> AB: We got invited a textile conference in Finland as the WTO by a technical university. We lectured about the WTO’s solution to various problems, including the problem of modern slavery. The problem of modern slavery is they are across the world in places you don’t want to go, so you have to control them remotely and you want hands-free operation. The natural place to mount a view screen is at the crotch. We developed “the employee visualization appendage,” basically a 3-foot golden penis. People from major corporations were in the audience, including DOW Chemicals. They applauded.
0) https://indypendent.org/2009/09/the-yes-men-speak/ https://indypendent.org/2009/09/the-yes-men-speak/