On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:14 PM, David G.
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6:14 PM David: don't know Topiary.
6:15 PM not surprised. I can't help wondering, for my own self-important reasons, what effect my involvement in chanology had in shaping the (often brilliant, imo) manifestos coming out of these different branches
In the end, don't think I could ever know. And I sure as hell didn't 'invent' any of the ideas I brought, and was never the sole person advocating them.
but damn if I didn't influence some minds early on there :)
6:32 PM David: A Declaration of Independence.
We, the Citizens of the Wrold, who utilize the latest communications technologies for social purposes
declare universally our independence from all nations
The Citizens of the World may willfully choose to participate as members of any legal system
But no Citizen of the World is obligated to participate.
Any nation that imposes limits on free speech - as interpreted by those Citizens at That Time - may disregard the laws of their native land and accept whatever consequences follow from doing so (be it imprisonment, torture, death on a battlefield of glorious political revolution).
Any Citizen of the World may choose which laws they elect to ignore - be it laws against divorce, laws against illicit drug sales and consumption, laws against political activism, laws against arms sales, laws that protect against tyrranical leadership, laws against homosexual marriage, laws against racial integration, and any laws that have ever or will ever be proposed. Any citizen of the world may discourage any person they choose from participation in law enforcement or military involvement, regardless of any commitments the person may have made to their employers. Any citizen of the world may promote the idea that some or all of the laws of their landmass are unjust and should be ignored. Any citizen who chooses to do so willfully accepts whatever consequences follow from doing so