Sovereignty and the Citizen Ship

Cyborg Democracy

Link: Cyborg Democracy.

Letter to Neil Freer - the ET/Sovereignty Thing

This is a letter to Neil Freer, explicator of Zararia Sitchin's work and author of "God Games". In it, I ask him to consider formulating a declaration of sovereignty. I would be fascinated to hear how he would frame it.

Samizdata Blog

Who Are We?

"The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.

"We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, libertarians, extropians, futurists, 'Porcupines', Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frederic Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe. ..." --Samizdata Blog Home Page; read more on cite

Blogging and the New Citizenship

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Evatt Foundation: Publication: If you build it they will come - 17 June 2003

...To some people, weblogs (blogs, as the word is almost universally abbreviated to) are a geek hula-hoop, a fad that will pass once the novelty wears off; a bit of fun, but not something to get too excited about. To others they represent a rebirth of participatory democracy, a new form of journalism, and even the home of the new public intellectuals....It would be dull to simply declare that blogs are something in between these extremes, so let me tilt towards the argument that says they are, at least potentially, the home of a new type of public intellectual, a type that breaks down the usual images of the detached wise person or topical expert explaining things to an uninformed public, and that blogging brings public debate back within coo-ee of those to whom it should belong anyway, the ordinary citizens. Blogging, potentially on a large scale, puts the public in public intellectual...." --Tim Dunlop, Evatt Foundation; read more on cite