Is claiming to be a WTO official a passport into any obscure corporate trade meeting? Can anyone do it?
Sure! But the WTO’s identity is not necessarily the best one to adopt—it’s also just as interesting to pass as any old nonexistent worker or manager, or even a right-wing ideologue. To do so you can just dress up real splendid-like and make up a history—no one ever asks for proof of identity at most things, and when you’re in the food and drinks are free. It’s like this urban exploration thing, where you climb into tunnels and go through buildings and so on, where you’re not supposed to, so that you get a sense of what’s behind things—you get a sense of how strange things are, a sense that most of those who are actually within the environment, no matter how smart they are, rarely get, because they’re used to it.
