[hackerspaces] Please explain this to me

[Phil Broussard]

So the message I'm supposed to get from this is that had it not been for 
the hippies I wouldn't have a hackerspace to be a part of? That they are 
a response to bourgeois society and based around the anarchist mentality 
and an anti government movement?

I just can't accept that this is how hakerspaces came into being. There 
were things like hackerspaces before the first ones in the 90's. First 
thing that comes to mind is how garages used to rent out a bays for a 
person to work on a car. Tools provided, more experienced "members" to 
mentor you. This wasn't because of a counter culture movement. It was 
because there were a group of people that liked doing the same thing.

If this article is meant to bring a philosophical point of view to the 
growth of hackerspaces, so be it. It just seams like a real stretch. I 
would really enjoy an article that documents how things started with 
places like New Hack City and Hasty Pastry and progressed to our current 
place in time. Especially if it included how the changes in technology 
influenced the growth of new spaces.

Phil

On 7/23/2013 6:49 PM, hellekin wrote:
> On 07/23/2013 07:34 PM, Phil Broussard wrote:
>> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Rewriting_Hacking_the_Spaces
>>
> *** One of the most serious, if not the ulticheck-and-mately grave
> thingie, written on hackerspaces ever. By a human being that is.
>
>> Is this just something some one posted on the site or is this meant to
>> be taken seriously? I'm not trying to start an argument or insult
>> anyone. I'm honestly having a very difficult time connecting the dots.
>>
> *** I'm having a difficult time seeing what dots do not connect. Can you
> be a bit more explicit?
>
> ==
> hk
>
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