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Originally Posted by Kumabjorn
I am sitting in an Italian leather couch in my Swedish house, designed by a Danish architect, reading a Japanese author about a North Korean dictator on an American Kindle, produced in China that I was able to convert through a software developed by an Indian, sipping my Brazilian coffee in a mug from Thailand, munching on some nuts from Kenya and dates from Iraq. Ohh, and I am listening to an Australian radio station playing classic music composed by Germans and Austrians on a WiFi radio designed by a Dutch company that produced it in Indonesia.
I guess Marshall McLuhan got it right.
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300 years ago you could have been reading the words of an English playwright in a book published in the Netherlands describing the adventures of a Moor fighting the Turks for Venice...all while drinking coffee imported from the Ottoman empire.
If you didn't die of the plague imported from Finland...