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I've often though Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changing was analogous to Barlow's 1996 A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace[1] (not that I thought that was a great document, but it is a convenient symbol).

The optimism and feeling of change was the same.

The Altamont concert[2] was the end of that feeling in the 60's, just as the 2016 US election campaign has been the end of it now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Declaration_of_the_Independe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert



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