Exactly eighty years ago, the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy wrote a short story called “Chains” in which he suggested that anyone on the planet can be connected to any other person on the planet through a chain of acquaintances that has no more than five intermediaries. His theory was called The Six Degrees Of Separation.
In plain English, this means that there are only six degrees of separation between you and Mr. Ratan Tata. That’s right, the one person who can call for an immediate halt to the destructive port in Orissa, and protect the endangered Olive Ridley Turtles. Greenpeace and thousands of our supporters and cyberactivsts (most of us Tata customers) have been trying to reach him for weeks, but someone at his office doesn’t want us to speak directly with him.
That’s exactly where you can help. Someone you know has Mr. Tata’s cellphone number. Fire up your networks, go through your phonebook, speak to your aunt… because the truth is out there. All that separates you from it is six degrees.
Email us when you’ve found it. And power to the P2P!
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