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John Markoff: Floating Upstream: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand

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Is It a Mixed Bag?

I blame myself I you know I fell for John Barlow's John Perry Barlow's utopianism as much as anybody else did you know this was going to be this saccotry and a bode that was separate from the real world. Well there was a lot of people standing behind John kind of rolling a line. The really tough problems you not get solved right away climate is in that category, too. You've got to sort your way through them. Gregory Bateson said he worked with schizophrenia because he said that you will see people who are as schizophrenia because they ever were but they manage in the world. Figure out how to manage the damn thing and ride the crazy horse.

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