Hacker News Reader

I will never understand the HN crowd's deification of the internet. Out of all the methods of communication out there it doesn't seem particularly special, and definitely not special enough to supercede the sovereignity of nations.

View on HN

In this case the problem is that the sovereignity of the nation has been undermined by a military coup. Which is to say: Unless you believe in the rightfullness of the right of the stronger which in political terms would amount to believe into some elan vitale, a will of the biological organism of the people, some superstition of thinking blood and soil (which is to say a mob of antisocial males) to be the (metaphysical) being of what is considered the nationstate. (Some might also argue that the nationstate has had terrible consequences for the average worker in the dawn of modernity (that bit of history is probably specific to western history))

adding on this: I'd agree with the notion that it is weird that people fetishize the internet as some anarchic free entity when on a material level it is owned in big parts by private interest.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com