alt Hacker NewsThe hacker aesthetic has always been largely reactionary and hyperfocused on the individual and individual freedoms. See also the politics of "generation X"
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The saddest thing of our age is that "reactionary" and "individual freedom" is equated to authoritarian movements that are anything but.
The hacker aesthetic has always been anarchist in nature, until the rich Californians decided that a hacker is an entrepreneur that participates into the game of capitalism. To be fair, even the concept of libertarianism was an offshoot of anarchism, until the Americans decided that it means right-wing party politics of the rich elite. Words don't mean anything any more, any concept that can equated to its opposite if it rewards one with internet points.
In modern, heavily statist / semi-authoritarian world, being pro individual freedoms is revolutionary in itself.