Maybe oblio is just frustrated because s/he can't relate to it and wishes s/he could. I don't know, I'm not a shrink and I don't even play one on TV. One thing I agree with: there is no hidden meaning. It is all very up front and straightforward and lays a lot of truth on the line, even if not every hacker would agree with it or feel s/he could relate to it.

I personally know what it is to live through being stifled in the public school system -- mind you in one of the nation's best-rated & wealthier east-coast counties -- and being constantly criticized, sarcasm-flamed, put down and "shamed" for my intelligence, precocious insight, and endless curiosity. It rendered an underachiever out of me to my own detriment (i.e. why bother to study when the As are free and your grasp of the right answer is virtually its own "sixth sense"? -- till you hit highschool and college and suddenly you have the demands of the work needing to be done without the good habits formed earlier, etc.) and resulted in my wasting a lot of valuable time that could have been invested in the future, which future is here now, with me doing so much catching up I barely have time for today.
Then I got to watch it happen to my kids because the spiraling & snowballing of the above led to the fact that I failed to place myself ahead of time in a sufficiently advantageous financial position to prevent it from happening to them.

Anyway, I like the manifesto. If nothing else, it reveals the need of a young mind for competent guidance and instruction, say nothing of appreciation. That's something I think far too many eyes need opening about.