individual responsibility - was Re: Nationalism vs Globalism

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Sun Sep 4 18:43:24 PDT 2016


On 09/04/2016 06:26 PM, Mark Steward wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2016 01:53, "Mirimir" <mirimir at riseup.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 09/03/2016 05:25 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> ...
>>> What kind of conversations are worthy of this list?
>>
>> Maybe this is just too obvious, but consider what "cypherpunk" means.
>> The term was coined in the "punk rock" era. So by analogy, cypherpunk is
>> about co-opting crypto against the system. So that's what this list is
>> for, I believe. It's not a list for social/political/economic theory or
>> the fucking US presidential race or sucking Putin's dick or whatever.
>>
> 
> Also cyberpunk. Imagine a dystopic future of lonely, once angry, now tired
> individuals who lash out at any suggestion they are wrong. Back in the 90s
> they might have been nudged to tinker with crypto and empowering the world,
> but instead they spent their time seeing how many times they could fit
> "fuck" and "retard" into an email post.

“If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.” Richard K. Morgan

> Mark
> 



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