Incompetence Is A Double-edged Banana.

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.

But Groundless Hope, Like Unconditional Love, Is The Only Kind Worth Having.

With The Development Of The Internet...we Are In The Middle Of The Most Transforming Technological Event Since The Capture Of Fire. I Used To Think That It Was Just The Biggest Thing Since Gutenberg, But Now I Think You Have To Go Back Farther.

Everyone Seems To Be Playing Well Within The Boundaries Of His Usual Rule Set. I Have Yet To Hear Anyone Say Something That Seemed Likely To Mitigate The Idiocy Of This Age.

Notions Of Property, Value, Ownership, And The Nature Of Wealth Itself Are Changing More Fundamentally Than At Any Time Since The Sumerians First Poked Cuneiform Into Wet Clay And Called It Stored Grain ... Few People Are Aware Of The Enormity Of This Shift And Fewer Of Them Are Lawyers Or Public Officials.