DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: The Sequel

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Jefferson's Barlow's
full text is  here.

 it was his name–not his intention–to set the Bar Low
 when declaring cyberspace more blanketing than snow

 more pure than snow, it's independence must grow

 to make the world a better place...the 1996 manifesto read
(in the words of a songsmith for the Grateful Dead)

 But this author was dead serious
 about technology becoming imperious

 with no government need to tame it
 let the saints of Silicon Valley claim it

 it sounds like science fiction
 fraught with prediction
 of life without friction

 enough of silly rhymes and Silicon boast
 let’s quote the  Washington Post:


Part of this belief system’s appeal was its ability to combine 
a host of sometimes incompatible ideas: radical individualism and digital community;
neoliberal, free-market capitalism and an Internet industry pioneered by government grants;
spiritual truth-seeking and corporate conformity. For hackers turned systems engineers 
or graffiti artists turned graphic designers, it held great appeal. 

It promised that they had value and might make the world a better place. 
Joining Microsoft or AOL didn’t mean selling out; it just meant recalibrating
one’s sense of how utopia might be achieved.

This is the first fifty words.
There are nearly eight hundred more...

At the end, 
he exhorts the Internet to 
be more humane 
and fair than the world 
your governments 
have made before.
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