Hallucinating Mob

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I've ever seen.  Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch.  Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob.

-- John Perry Barlow (1947-) American poet, essayist, and cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Interviewed in "John Perry Barlow 2.0" by Brian Doherty at ReasonOnline (August 2004)