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Ah, the halcyon days of thrusting off the shackles of capitalism to have freedom in a decentralized digital environment where a new Social Contract is being neg
by californiadreem 4y ago
Ah, the halcyon days of thrusting off the shackles of capitalism to have freedom in a decentralized digital environment where a new Social Contract is being negotiated! There's no way our idealism will feed a new class of nouveau riche that will sacrifice community ideals for profit.
Or to be more clear, Google ("Don't Be Evil") was founded in the same year that John Perry Barlow published A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (1996). Barlow is dead and so is his dream. The Empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.
Which is to say, federate the web all you want, but a Hamilton is inevitably going stomp on your Jeffersonian dream (and vice-versa).
https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
- wallfacer120 4y agoi wonder if there's a single ill in the world that you don't lay at the feet of "corporations."
- californiadreem 4y agoCommenting on the naïveté of Mastodon users endlessly repeating the history of modernity is a strange way to affirm any position regarding corporations, but your unsolicited reply is pretty clear that you like them.
- wallfacer120 4y ago
- californiadreem 4y agoI think you might enjoy these (if you haven't already read them recently): https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-11/ https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-11/ https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-and-dionysus/ https://courses.aynrand.org/works/apollo-and-dionysus/
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