Decline of the Cypherpunks list...Part 19

[Marcel Popescu]

From: "Brian C. Lane" <bcl at brianlane.com>

> Clay Shirky has some good thoughts on this in his essay 'The Group Is
> Its Own Worst Enemy', found at
> http://shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html

"So we're back, and we're taking wizardly fiat back, and we're going to do
things to run the system. We are effectively setting ourselves up as a
government, because this place needs a government, because without us, the
place was falling apart."

Interesting motivation for setting up a government.

Mark