>> Is the cypherpunks movement truly so radicalized that it is > not
willing to count even EPIC among its friends?
Perhaps I was being unfair to EPIC and typing too quickly. I count EPIC
executive director Marc Rotenberg as a friend, a principled person, and
someone for whom I have a great deal of respect. Some folks may remember
that Marc and I drove to a cypherpunks meeting south of Palo Alto last year. <<
Radicalized it is and so far right it's becoming amusing.Some thoughts on
Loompanics readers may apply to the crypto fascist cypherpunks...It's also
possible, like Bob Black points out in his essay The Best Book Catalog in
the World, that those looking for The Cookbook are like those who buy books
from Loompanics. He writes that Loompanics customers are:
"... probably not the well-armed, high-tech, drug-taking, survivalist,
martial-arts, black-marketeering, tax-dodging, life-extensionist,
freethinking, paper-tripping Discordian master criminals that a composite
of catalog cullings would suggest. I think they are mostly spiritually
restless materialists: macho contemplatives locked into day jobs. They
dream of escape -- of "vonu" (invulnerability to coercion by withdrawal
from society); of the High Frontier (space colonization); of life extension
to tide them over till a better day. They long for the big score. They take
hope from books which parade their contempt for normal life as they portray
fantastic possibilities always presented according to a patented formula of
tough-minded realism. The typical Loompanics reader is, I conjecture, a
surrealist trapped in the body of an engineer."
http://infoshop.org/texts/chuck_cookbook_essay.html
