A manifesto is a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. I would say that the intentions of the Hacker Manifesto were to show that not all hackers are criminals but that most of them actually just want to break things down, see how they work and share that information with others. Because when you share information with other people, they can take that information and go farther with it and hopefully create something new. I think this idea is best stated when the Manifesto states, “We explore… and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge… and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias… and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it’s for our own good, yet we’re the criminals”.
On the other hand the Cyborg Manifesto is more about the accepting of technology in our lives and how technology could create a better world and society. Haraway talks about how socialists and feminists seem to be against technology when she says, “One of my premises is that most American socialists and feminists see deepened dualisms of mind and body, animal and machine, idealism and materialism in the social practices, symbolic formula-tions, and physical artefacts associated with ‘high technology’ and scientific culture”. She then goes on to present her idea about how cyborgs could lead to a better world when she states, “a cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints”.
My manifesto is about the gamer culture.
Track games.
Field games.
Sports games.
Board games.
Out of all of the games in existence why do people have such a negative view on video games?
Video games require concentration.
Video games require cooperation.
Video games require creativity.
Out of the many things a young person could be doing why would we encourage them not to partake in an activity that require them to think and expand their minds.
Video games are new.
Video games are different.
Video game can be scary.
But new, different, and scary are usually good things for society.
If we took a step back and gave the gamer culture a chance, perhaps we would see how it is not a culture of wasted time, laziness or worthlessness but one of awareness, teamwork and imagination.