Pretending To Be Asleep

Mother Jones has an online interview with EFF agitator and Grateful Dead Songwriter John Perry Barlow,about “the Total Information Awareness project, online activism, file sharing, and the prospect of a digital counterculture.”
I think Barlow just about always has good things to say, but this quote is particularly great:
As the Navajo say, “It’s impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep.” And I think that mostly what America is doing is pretending to be asleep.

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