History:

We have all come to recognize the revolutionary changes the Information Technology (IT)/ computing industry has brought to our lives, and most people believe this will be a period of history comparable in significance to the Industrial Revolution. We disagree with this common assessment in that it grossly underestimates the true impact and importance of the IT/computing revolution. Over the past 30 plus years, the IT/computing community has literally created the foundation for a vast 'New World' that is about to emerge. It is not a tangible new world such as the Americas were in 1492, for it is far larger in scope and impact, and will ultimately prove to dwarf the importance of Columbus's 'New World'.

From 1492-1776, the philosophical and political foundation of the 'New World' of the Americas was being built, yet no one recognized that it was happening at the time. It was a slow, subconscious evolution of a new society based upon the type of people that chose to migrate to the colonies, the reasons they chose to migrate, their entrepreneurial and risk taking efforts, their beliefs and experiences, their opposition to government control and tyranny, and their desire for individual rights and liberty. As this evolution of society matured and began showing its independence, the government of the 'Old World' (Great Britain) became alarmed and proceeded to exert its 'supposed' rightful authority to bring this emerging' New World' back into line. From 1765-1775 the friction between these two worlds intensified, and in 1776, it ruptured with The Declaration of Independence and the establishment of the United States of America. The new lands Columbus discovered in 1492 only truly became a 'New World' with the events of 1776. The philosophical and political foundation of the United States, a sliver of a nation with only 2.5 million inhabitants, became the literal embodiment of the 'New World' of 1492-1776 and proceeded to completely change the global landscape over the subsequent centuries.

The World Today:

We believe that the world today is very close to reaching a similar watershed event as in 1776. However, this time the stakes are far greater because of the high speed interconnected world we live in via the Internet. For the past 30 plus years, the IT/computing community has changed nearly all aspects of our lives: the way we think, learn, communicate, interact, conduct business, etc. The one aspect of our lives that has resisted, and even refused change, is that of our government. This is astonishingly similar to the British government of 1765-1776 that refused to change its 'Old World' ways when dealing with the 'New World' of the 13 colonies. The recent period of 1970-2000 can be directly compared to the period of 1492-1776:

1. Once again, a new philosophical and political foundation, this time for the IT/computing based 'New World' has been built, yet it has not been recognized until now.
2. Once again, this new philosophical and political foundation was built in a slow, subconscious evolution of a new society based upon the type of people that chose to migrate into IT/computing, the reasons they chose to migrate, their entrepreneurial and risk taking efforts, their beliefs and experiences, their opposition to government control and tyranny, and their desire for individual rights and liberty. (This is verifiable everywhere you look in the IT/computing community by the high prevalence of libertarianism and distrust of government.)
3. Once again, as the evolution of the IT/computing community matured and began showing its independence, the government of the 'Old World' (now led by the United States) became alarmed and proceeded to exert its 'supposed' rightful authority to bring this emerging IT/computing-based 'New World' back into line. (The 'GOVERNMENT ATTACKS' page on our website clearly sites the proof.)
4. Once again, the friction between the IT/computing-based 'New World' with that of the U.S.-based 'Old World' has intensified, and the rupturing has clearly begun with movements like that of The CyberNation of Freedom. (The key difference from 1776 is that The CyberNation of Freedom is based upon a non-violent, law abiding 'Revolution of Thought'.)
5. Once again, the new IT/computing landscape discovered over the past 30 plus years will only truly become a 'New World' once it embraces a unifying philosophical and political foundation that allows it to separate from the 'Old World.'

The CyberNation of Freedom:

The CyberNation of Freedom is the free and independent Internet-based nation of the new millennium. It is the embodiment of the philosophical and political evolution of the IT/computing community over the past 30 plus years. It is a serious political philosophy based upon the principles of defending individual rights and freedom as espoused by the U.S. Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights. It is very unique in that it accounts for the experiences and failures of the past 224 years, and proceeds to rectify those failures where realistically achievable.

The Philosophical Foundation of The CyberNation of Freedom:

The United States was formed as an extension and improvement of the philosophical foundation of Great Britain (Magna Carta (1215), English Bill of Rights (1689), Parliament). Likewise, the CyberNation has been formed as an extension and improvement of the philosophical foundation of the United States (Declaration of Independence (1776), Constitution (1787), Bill of Rights (1791)). An objective look at the foundation of the United States with what exists today clearly shows us that this foundation has been compromised and that the United States has become just another socialist state in disguise. (All of the 'supposed' democracies in the world are extensions of the U.S. philosophical foundation whether they want to admit it or not. Most have unfortunately gone the same path to socialism in disguise as well.)

The CyberNation is the engine for the world to return to the philosophical foundation of the United States, but with improvements that clearly limit the role of government and its future growth potential. The CyberNation does NOT represent a radical departure from the U.S. philosophical foundation. Radical departures tend to be very violent and dangerous precisely because they lack historical continuity: e.g. Russian Revolution (1917), Iranian Revolution (1979). For this very reason, the CyberNation maintains traditional symbolism that speaks of a return as well as a progression on the U.S. philosophical foundation - a foundation which quite literally changed the entire world, not just North America, with an emphasis on individual rights and freedom. The CyberNation flag design and colors (tracing back to 1776), E PLURIBUS UNUM (tracing back to 1776), the Statue of Liberty (tracing back to 1886), are all positive symbols that depict the historical continuity of this movement. The CyberNation tent is and always will be open and welcome to all.