RU Sirius responds to Kevin Kelly

Actually, the demonstrations against the start of the Iraq war were huge compared to anything that happened during Vietnam up until the "moratorium" ... I think that was in 1969. The "teabaggers" seem to be able to organize large rallies. Seattle 1999 was pretty effective, but what we might be witnessing is the dissipation of focus on these events ... lost in the media flood.

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1968, you see a remarkable protest movement that spanned the globe - "with a synchronicity previously unheard of in human history," as Franco Berardi has observed. This was a manifestation of a profoundly physical "mass connectedness," an in-the-streets "mass connectedness," and yet it was spurred and coordinated without any of the information and communication technologies that we today take for granted and often see as marking a revolution in our ability to communicate and collaborate on a large scale.
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Sometimes it feels like nothing has happened since 1968. But that's experiential or existential. I'm not sure how effective all that action was. You know that quote from Zhao Enlai from some time in the 1950s or 60s, when asked about the effects of the French Revolution (1789, not 1968) where he said, "It's too soon to tell"?