“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.” IfsMenGivingArtHardMightWantedCultureCreativeFocusCarMonthsSafeMembersResourcesToolsIntelligentPassionateBurningPreparationHard TimesOppositionWildernessVotersExileAlphasMetricsBurning Man Author:John Perry Barlow
“One may as well be optimistic. The road to catastrophe will be rougher if it's paved with dread.” IfsWellsMayOptimisticDreadCatastropheBeing Optimistic Author:John Perry Barlow
“One can imagine the government's problem. This is all pretty magical stuff to them. If I were trying to terminate the operations of a witch coven, I'd probably seize everything in sight. How would I tell the ordinary household brooms from the getaway vehicles?” IfsTryingProblemGovernmentStuffImaginationImagineMagicOrdinarySightOperationsWitchVehicleHouseholdBroomsGetaways Author:John Perry Barlow
“New solutions win by virtue of adoption, and they don't get adopted if they're bad solutions.” IfsWinningVirtueSolutionsAdoptionAdopted Author:John Perry Barlow
“If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.” IfsIdeasMassIgnorantElitesComebackKnowledgeableIgnorant Masses Author:John Perry Barlow
“If you're not lost, you're not much of an explorer.” IfsLostExplorersLost You Author:John Perry Barlow
“I've begun to wonder if we wouldn't also regard spelunkers as desperate criminals if AT&T owned all the caves.” IfsWonderRegardCriminalsDesperateCaves Author:John Perry Barlow
