Cyberlibertarianism wasn't the book we needed, but there's still a revisionist history of digital culture that is yet to be written
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the tl;dr is that we need to abandon cyberlibertarianism for cybercommunism
Cyberlibertarianism could have been the book that taught us to unlearn them but unfortunately it was a total mess, but it did reveal oh yeah the guy who wrote the crypto anarchist manifesto was a white supremacist. or you read that book on the cult of the dead cow and you realize they had CIA handlers.
Cyberlibertarianism wasn't the book we needed, but there's still a revisionist history of digital culture that is yet to be written
@julieofthespirits That's the book David wanted, but he didn't manage to finish it. What we have now is what his editor put together after he died.
@davidgerard I kind of suspected that, it kind of has the same 2666 feel of "this could have been a banger if the guy had lived longer to properly edit it"
@julieofthespirits mind you he was organising it for like 10-15 years, so
just imagining what he'd have made of the AI bubble, just getting going when he died but not in its full ah splendour
