interesting reflection by JPB in his own words <http://archive.is/ut0al#selection-413.2-415.425>, circa 2007:
I suppose I should come up with [a] revised edition. I want to make it more > obvious that I didn't think that cyberspace was sublimely detached from the > real world. It isn't... it's not like never never land. It bears the same > relationship to the physical world that the mind does to the body. They are > intimately connected, but are quite different. I'd also probably make it > slightly less strident... I was angry when I wrote it. > On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Kevin <kevinsisco61...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/7/2015 4:50 AM, Александр wrote: > >> >> by John Perry Barlow >> >> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, >> I >> come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask >> you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have >> no sovereignty where we gather. >> >> We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address >> you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always >> speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally >> independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral >> right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have >> true >> reason to fear. >> >> Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You >> have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do >> not >> know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your >> borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public >> construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows >> itself through our collective actions. >> >> You have not engaged in our great and gathering conversation, nor did you >> create the wealth of our marketplaces. You do not know our culture, our >> ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order >> than could be obtained by any of your impositions. >> >> You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this >> claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't >> exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will >> identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social >> Contract . This governance will arise according to the conditions of our >> world, not yours. Our world is different. >> >> Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, >> arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a >> world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies >> live. >> >> We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice >> accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. >> >> We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her >> beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into >> silence >> or conformity. >> >> Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and >> context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no >> matter here. >> >> Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by >> physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, >> and the commonweal, our governance will emerge . Our identities may be >> distributed across many of your jurisdictions. The only law that all our >> constituent cultures would generally recognize is the Golden Rule. We hope >> we will be able to build our particular solutions on that basis. But we >> cannot accept the solutions you are attempting to impose. >> >> In the United States, you have today created a law, the Telecommunications >> Reform Act, which repudiates your own Constitution and insults the dreams >> of Jefferson, Washington, Mill, Madison, DeToqueville, and Brandeis. These >> dreams must now be born anew in us. >> >> You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world >> where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust >> your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly >> to confront yourselves. In our world, all the sentiments and expressions >> of >> humanity, from the debasing to the angelic, are parts of a seamless whole, >> the global conversation of bits. We cannot separate the air that chokes >> from the air upon which wings beat. >> >> In China, Germany, France, Russia, Singapore, Italy and the United States, >> you are trying to ward off the virus of liberty by erecting guard posts at >> the frontiers of Cyberspace. These may keep out the contagion for a small >> time, but they will not work in a world that will soon be blanketed in >> bit-bearing media. >> >> Your increasingly obsolete information industries would perpetuate >> themselves by proposing laws, in America and elsewhere, that claim to own >> speech itself throughout the world. These laws would declare ideas to be >> another industrial product, no more noble than pig iron. In our world, >> whatever the human mind may create can be reproduced and distributed >> infinitely at no cost. The global conveyance of thought no longer requires >> your factories to accomplish. >> >> These increasingly hostile and colonial measures place us in the same >> position as those previous lovers of freedom and self-determination who >> had >> to reject the authorities of distant, uninformed powers. We must declare >> our virtual selves immune to your sovereignty, even as we continue to >> consent to your rule over our bodies. We will spread ourselves across the >> Planet so that no one can arrest our thoughts. >> >> We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more >> humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. >> >> Davos, Switzerland >> February 8, 1996 >> > This is harsh and creates an us VS. them mentality. > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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