Stumbled over this letter from John Perry Barlow on Lisa Rein’s Radar. He wrote it shortly after Arnie was elected Governator. He will start his term tomorrow, therefore although it is from last month, it is very timely. Sometimes you read something, where you think, never saw it from this perspective, but he is so right:
“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he’d have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then… ignore them. It’s a pretty safe bet that they won’t be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build…“
Read the whole text, and let’s get our act together. (Thanks Lisa)