John Perry Barlow
 John Perry Barlow       (musician, poet, activist, spook) | |
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| Born | 1947-10-03 Sublette County, Wyoming, United States |
| Died | 2018-02-07 (Age 70) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
| Founder of | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
John Perry Barlow was a member of the drug-promoting music band Grateful Dead and a founding member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
“The economy of the future is based on relationships rather than possessions.”
John Perry Barlow [1]
Activities
An obituary pointed out that "All through his life, Barlow caught breaks: getting through customs with a life-sized head sculpture filled with hash plus a page full of LSD tabs....In the 1960s, Barlow drove to Boston — out of his mind on chemicals — to become the first American suicide bomber. He intended to sit on the lap of a statue and blow himself up. The who's who of Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he was student president, descended on the place he was crashing, brought him back and put him in a sanatorium to bring him down. It took two weeks — and he resumed classes as if nothing had happened.[2]
He managed to be in absolutely the right place at the right time. He spent the Summer of Love (1967) in Haight-Ashbury in the home of the Grateful Dead. [2]
In 1978, he worked with Dick Cheney to get him into Congress. Barlow once lauded Cheney as "the smartest man I've ever met [with] the possible exception of Bill Gates".[3]
In 1996, Barlow attended the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos and published the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace.[4]
He was a member of the WhoWhatWhy Advisory Board when he died in 2018.[5]
Barlow introduced the Grateful Dead to Timothy Leary, who was inextricably linked with the CIA.[6]
Barlow, in 2002, admitted in a Forbes magazine interview ironically titled "Why Spy?" that he spent time at CIA headquarters at Langley.[7][8]
Publications
Barlow's last book was scheduled for publication on the day he died.[5]
References
- ↑ https://issuu.com/localmoney/docs/bernard_lietaer_-_rethinking_money_/202
- ↑ a b https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/john-perry-barlows-last-words/
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/obituary-john-perry-barlow-ggh5sxh5b
- ↑ https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/john-perry-barolow/
- ↑ a b https://whowhatwhy.org/2018/02/13/john-perry-barlows-last-words/
- ↑ https://spitfirelist.com/news/john-perry-barlow-grateful-dead-lyricist-dick-cheney-campaign-manager-george-wallace-voter-the-cia-and-the-genesis-of-social-media/
- ↑ http://www.forbes.com/asap/2002/1007/042_print.html
- ↑ https://ramblinjoemusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/john-perry-barlow-cognitive-dissident.pdf
