  urlLink A good essay by urlLink John Perry Barlow , urlLink Grateful Dead lyricist , co-founder of the urlLink Electronic Frontier Foundation and thinker. Are alternative sub-cultures in America becoming too self-involved to take part in democratic discourse? Perhaps this Balkanization of the freaks really is a Republican plot. I doubt it though. Sub-cultures are inherently isolated from mainstream society and often from each other. Tiny islands of oddness in the sea of average Joes. 
