This is why he is known as John Perry Blowhard. A writer's magazine a few years ago published an analysis of his ramblings, and it was pretty funny. The mixed metaphors and malapropisms are alone are worth a chuckle.
There used to be a joke among the faculty at MIT: When you look up Nicholas Negroponte in the faculty directory, its says, "See John Perry Barlow". >John Perry Barlow: > > <http://www.heise.de/tp/english/inhalt/te/14337/1.html> > >It's not the data universe only, it's human conversation. >They want to turn it into a one-way flow that they have entirely >monetized. I look at the collective human mind as a kind of >ecosystem. They want to clear cut it. They want to go into the >rainforest of human thought and mow the thing down.
