[edblarney]

">> I declare the planetary 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."

That guy is going to have a great 40th Birthday party as his buddies whip that one out, and make him chug a beer for every time someone laughs out loud.

[kybernetikos]

'That guy' is John Perry Barlow who is currently 69. He wrote it 20 years ago when he was 49.

Regardless of how naive (or even misguided) it seems, it's part of the culture of the internet and it's a bit sad that more people on hackernews aren't aware of it.

[edblarney]

I'm aware of the culture, and I'm fine with it.

Surely, we benefit from having some people here and there 'rail against big corporations'.

There are granules of truth in it.

But it's the hyperbolic and crazy statements that are funny and spooky.