John Perry
John Perry
art musician ashes
Out of the ashes of the music business, comes the rebirth of the musician business.
technology civilization government
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
art intelligent men
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.
technology government asking
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
ideas ignorant-masses knowledgeable
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.
entertainment people
The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
best liberating tool
The Internet is the most liberating tool for humanity ever invented, and also the best for surveillance. It's not one or the other. It's both.