James overlooks the agricultural virtue of cypherpunks death and rebirth for the natural cycle gets rid of old growth and allows for a new improved version.
No doubt the old crop doesn't get much satisfaction being taken for manure, nor do the new sprouts see any reason to hail the shit doing what it's supposed to do. Cypherpunks surely will not vaunt tradition when innovation starts to peter out. True, declaring the war is won and going over to war-storying is a grand tradition of bullshitting.
