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Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
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by BillSeitz
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Aug 28, 2008 4:00 pm |
started out as story published in Wired Mag http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/microserfs_pr.html
another excerpt in Wired from when the book came out http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.07/coupland.html
you exist not only as a member of a family or a company or a country, but as a member of a species - you are human. You are part of humanity. Our species currently has major problems and we're trying to dream our way out of these problems and we're using computers to do it. The construction of hardware and software is where the species is investing its very survival, and this construction requires zones of peace, children born of peace, and the absence of code-interfering distractions. We may not achieve transcendence (Evolut Ion) through computation, but we will keep ourselves out of the gutter with them. What you perceive of as a vacuum is an earthly paradise - the freedom to, quite literally, line-by-line, prevent humanity from going nonlinear
entire text online? http://preterhuman.net/texts/literature/unsorted/microserfs.txt
Bill Seitz, fluxent at gmail dot com, Weblog