wow - all this over people who just deliver packages on a bike. I have never heard it described in this manner by people I worked with or currently know who are messengers.
chalk it up to riding the wave.
sometimes a bike messenger is just a person trying to make a living - not a precursor to some half-assed metaphysics extrapolation.
(hopefully a tshirt printed with this article will soon be available for sale at independent skate shops around the US!)