On 31 Dec 2003 at 12:45, Tim May wrote:
People like Tyler Durden, James Donald, and John Young are using the tired old cliches about how it is "society that paid for business" and hence "society" has some right to take a cut of each transaction between Alice and Bob.
No, Tyler, James and John said none of the alleged cliches. These are chimeras Tim fantasizes to buttress his demotic vainglory, bless his shriveled heart, his throbbing headcrimp. Still, I think Tim is the funniest of cypherpunks, though it takes a strong stomach, or a cruelty-is-pleasure likemind, to enjoy his dry as sand grist. Gypsies, as with welfare cheats, talk the talk of Tim, imitating those who disparage the outcast, who refuses to hold a steady job, too smart to fall for the call to pull your fair share load. When Tim gets going on his seemingly vile attacks on the downtrodden it is admirably like the downtrodden I grew up with: it takes one to know one, and their vulnerabilities, those of the outcast eager to hammer, ridicule, belly laugh at, those of similar condemnation by inbred supremacists, themselves not long out of the ghetto. Nietzsche called this shot as he too shot himself futilely professing claims of superiority. What can you do when society at large remains indifferent to your plight except propound your virtues despite those virtues being named by the dominant society as faults. Calvin spouted the lament of the excluded, proclaimed the outcasts the chosen, aping those who armed the peasants against their masters. Stigma is inescapable until you overthrow the stigmatizers, and in turn stigmatize others to maintain your evanescent superiority, as did your oppressors, and will do again as soon as they whip your lazy ass grown soft by belief you're impregnable. So goes the fall of empires, so goes the blinding conceit, crippling addiction, of supremacists of any skin hue, of any economic surety. The yawning grave beckons the folly peddlers of immortality, of singular salvation from terror of utter cessation. A joke, human aspiration for higher being. Thus spake Zarathrustra.