On 09/04/2016 05:26 PM, Mark Steward wrote: > On 4 Sep 2016 01:53, "Mirimir" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 09/03/2016 05:25 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > ... >> > What kind of conversations are worthy of this list? >> >> Maybe this is just too obvious, but consider what "cypherpunk" means. >> The term was coined in the "punk rock" era. So by analogy, cypherpunk is >> about co-opting crypto against the system. So that's what this list is >> for, I believe. It's not a list for social/political/economic theory or >> the fucking US presidential race or sucking Putin's dick or whatever. >> > > Also cyberpunk. Imagine a dystopic future of lonely, once angry, now > tired individuals who lash out at any suggestion they are wrong. Back in > the 90s they might have been nudged to tinker with crypto and empowering > the world, but instead they spent their time seeing how many times they > could fit "fuck" and "retard" into an email post. > > Mark >
Perfect... I know it's probably offtopic but Johnny Rotten wold have sucked Putin's dick, or whatever. Just because it would piss somebody off. The reference to 'punk', 'against the shitstem', I might add, also implies 'counterculture'... Rr
