{"id":366,"date":"2003-11-19T20:41:48","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T01:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/barlow-call-to-arms\/"},"modified":"2003-11-19T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2003-11-20T01:41:48","slug":"barlow-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/barlow-call-to-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"barlow call to arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>with the inauguration out of the way,  i thought i&#8217;d take a little time to ponder one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/site\/displayarticle887.html\" class=\"broken_link\">writings<\/a> of one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/~barlow\">john perry barlow<\/a>.  yes.  governor schwarzenegger.  i said it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s time for the experientialists &#8211; those of us who don&#8217;t get our reality from television,  who actually read about what what we can&#8217;t experience directly &#8211; to emerge from our psychic sanctuaries and become seriously involved in the ugly business of politics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>this is a call to arms &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/fear_3.html\">intellectual arms<\/a>.  there are less than 12 months left until the united states gets to test <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=2&amp;search=diebold\" class=\"broken_link\">broken voting machines<\/a> in an effort to determine our own fate.  demand functional machines.<\/p>\n<p>we&#8217;ve seen the bush vision of the world, and it&#8217;s time to decide if it&#8217;s what we want.  if not, we need an alternative.  a bold, american, visionary alternative.  it&#8217;s time to consider the issues that are bigger than ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve decided that <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/cat_not_my_america.html\" class=\"broken_link\">this is not my america<\/a>.  you need to make up your mind.  soon.<\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;ve done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeshops.com\/usingrights\/\" class=\"broken_link\">some<\/a> (in my own ironic way), and i <a href=\"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/cat_politics.html\" class=\"broken_link\">rant<\/a> occasionally.<\/p>\n<p>i need to do more.  you need to do more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>update<\/strong>:  <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/\">joi<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/archives\/2003\/11\/19\/my_position_on_the_us.html\">doing more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>with the inauguration out of the way, i thought i&#8217;d take a little time to ponder one of the writings of one john perry barlow. yes. governor schwarzenegger. i said it. It&#8217;s time for the experientialists &#8211; those of us who don&#8217;t get our reality from television, who actually read about what what we can&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}