Manifestation-03.

And yet we don't quite know who we are. While
we recognise our distinctive existence as a group,
as programmers, as artists or writers or scientists
or musicians, we rarely see these ways of
representing ourselves as mere fragments of a class
experience that is still struggling to express
itself as itself, as expressions of the process of
producing abstraction in the world. Geeks and
freaks become what they are negatively, through
their exclusion by others. Hackers are a class, but
an abstract class, a class as yet to hack itself
into manifest existence as itself.

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