From 24ca25bf1f451db337ddb3a882fac88d5068d326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 09:59:08 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update the politics --- entries/Politics.txt | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/entries/Politics.txt b/entries/Politics.txt index 19b44e7..d83320b 100644 --- a/entries/Politics.txt +++ b/entries/Politics.txt @@ -1,11 +1,10 @@ Politics -Formerly vaguely liberal-moderate, more recently moderate-to-neoconservative -(hackers too were affected by the collapse of socialism). There is a strong -libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics -entirely. The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather -anti-authoritarian; thus, both paleoconservatism and hard leftism are rare. -Hackers are far more likely than most non-hackers to either (a) be -aggressively apolitical or (b) entertain peculiar or idiosyncratic political -ideas and actually try to live by them day-to-day. - +The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather +anti-authoritarian, so on a political compass chart they tend +to be somewhere within the libertarian left or libertarian right +quadrants. Since technology impacts upon so many aspects of +society it is rare for hackers to claim to be entirely apolitical, +and those that do make such a claim are typically just having +their viewpoints manipulated by popular media, which invariably +does have a political agenda.