Date sent: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:46:54 +0100 To: mtribe@contrib.de (Mark Tribe) From: John Perry Barlow Subject: Re: serious Copies to: nettime@is.in-berlin.de At 10:12 PM 11/9/95, Mark Tribe wrote: > Just because they think of themselves as hipsters > doesn't mean we should expect them to share the wealth. > > -R.U. Serious on the "techno-elite." > (http://www.21c.COM.AU/unplugg.html) > That's R.U. *Sirius*, by the way. And my lengthy experience with hipsters indicates that we are about as willing to share the wealth as other mortals but not much more so. And it's not as though being hip is commensurate to a vow of poverty except insofar as it reduces the market for one's products. **************************************************************** John Perry Barlow, Cognitive Dissident Co-Founder, Electronic Frontier Foundation Home(stead) Page: http://www.eff.org/~barlow Barlow in Meatspace: Amsterdam 11/6-13 Telephone: 31/2-612-3731 Coming soon to: New York City 11/13-15, Alexandria, VA 11/15-17, Chicago 11/17-19, Wyoming 11/19... In Memoriam, Dr. Cynthia Horner and Jerry Garcia ***************************************************************** Reality is the stuff that doesn't go away just because you stop believing in it. --Philip K. Dick