politics and freedom
reason has a great interview with john perry barlow, a co-founder of the electronic frontier foundation and a longtime collaborator with the grateful dead. he talked a lot about digital revolutions fifteen years ago and now he's participating in an interesting tv show for discovery about the health of his body and how he's changing many of his habits in order to survive middle age. and he's become a democrat. the interview is pretty broad reaching and barlow talks about part of the reason for becoming a political activist - he was busted for having a small amount of pot at an airport. it's an interesting story and his take on things is worth reading. as far as the current administration and how we ended up with bush as president he has this to say:
People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.
(fyi: barlow's blog is barlowfriendz. he doesn't update too frequently, but whenever he does it's worthwhile reading)