Editing John Perry Barlow (section)

===Writing===
From 1971 to 1995, Barlow wrote lyrics for the Grateful Dead, mostly through his relationship with Weir. Barlow's songs include "[[Cassidy (song)|Cassidy]]" (about [[Neal Cassady]] and Cassidy Law),<ref>{{cite web|last=Barlow|first=John Perry|title=Cassidy's Tale|date=November 3, 1994|url=http://www.litkicks.com/Topics/BarlowOnNeal.html|publisher =Literary Kicks: Beat Connections in Music|access-date =November 12, 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071023062542/http://www.litkicks.com/Topics/BarlowOnNeal.html|archive-date =October 23, 2007}}</ref> "[[Terrapin Station|Estimated Prophet]]", "[[Black-Throated Wind]]", "[[In the Dark (Grateful Dead album)|Hell in a Bucket]]", "[[Mexicali Blues (song)|Mexicali Blues]]", "[[Blues for Allah|The Music Never Stopped]]" and "[[Throwing Stones]]".
[[File:John Perry Barlow JI2.jpg|left|thumb|{{center|Portrait of Barlow, 2009}}]]
Barlow wrote extensively for ''[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]]'' magazine, as well as ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[Nerve (website)|Nerve]]'', and ''[[Communications of the ACM]]''. In his writings, he explained the wonder of the Internet. The Internet to him was more than a computer network; he called it an "electronic frontier".{{Sfn|Goldsmith|Wu|2006|p=17}} "He frequently wrote in language that echoed [[Henry Morton Stanley]]'s African diary. 'Imagine discovering a continent so vast that it may have no end to its dimensions. Imagine a new world with more resources than all our future greed might exhaust, more opportunities than there will ever be entrepreneurs enough to exploit, and a peculiar kind of real estate that expands with development. Imagine a place where trespassers leave no footprints, where goods can be stolen infinite number of times and yet remain in the possession of their original owners, where business you never heard of can own the history of your personal affairs.'"{{Sfn|Goldsmith|Wu|2006|pp=17–18}}

Barlow's writings include "[[A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace]]", written in response to the enactment of the [[Communications Decency Act]] in 1996. The EFF saw the law as a threat to the independence and sovereignty of cyberspace. He argued that the cyberspace legal order would reflect the ethical deliberation of the community instead of the coercive power that characterized real-space governance.{{Sfn|Goldsmith|Wu|2006|p=20}} Since online "identities have no bodies", they found it inappropriate to obtain order in the cyberspace by physical coercion.<ref name="declaration">{{cite web|url=http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration|title=A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace|access-date=February 9, 2007|last=Barlow|first=John Perry|author-link=John Perry Barlow|date=February 8, 1996|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071028001921/http://w2.eff.org/Censorship/Internet_censorship_bills/barlow_0296.declaration |archive-date=October 28, 2007}}</ref> Instead, ethics, [[enlightened self-interest]] and the commonwealth were the elements they believed to create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace.{{Sfn|Goldsmith|Wu|2006|p=20}}

In his 1990 piece "Crime and Puzzlement: in advance of the law on the electronic frontier", Barlow wrote about his firsthand experience with Phiber Optik ([[Mark Abene]]) and Acid Phreak ([[Elias Ladopoulos]]) from the hacker group [[Masters of Deception]], and mentioned [[Kevin Mitnick]]—all of whom were engaged in [[phone phreaking]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/crime_and_puzzlement_1.html|title=Crime and Puzzlement: in advance of the law on the electronic frontier.|work=Whole Earth Review (Fall 1990): 44–57|access-date=March 10, 2015|last=Barlow|first=John Perry|author-link=John Perry Barlow|date=June 8, 1990|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141024192834/http://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/crime_and_puzzlement_1.html|archive-date=October 24, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref> The title alludes to ''[[Crime and Punishment]]'' by [[Fyodor Dostoevsky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://insecure.org/stf/HackersEncyclope2.0.html|title=Hacker's Encyclopedia|website=Insecure.org|access-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527042429/http://insecure.org/stf/HackersEncyclope2.0.html|archive-date=May 27, 2016}}</ref>

Barlow is credited with popularizing of the concept of [[Pronoia (psychology)|pronoia]] (defined as the opposite of [[paranoia]]) and was considered a celebrity ally of the [[Zippy Pronoia Tour]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pronoia.net/def.html|title=Pronoia (definition)|website=Pronoia.net|access-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402211916/http://pronoia.net/def.html|archive-date=April 2, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 1998, Barlow wrote the article "Africa Rising: Everything You Know About Africa Is Wrong" for ''Wired'', which documented the start of his extensive travels as he worked to expand Internet access across the continent: "I went from Mombasa to Tombouctou, experiencing various parts of [[Kenya]], [[Ghana]], the [[Ivory Coast]], [[Mali]], [[Uganda]], and the [[Virunga Mountains|Virunga volcano area]] where Uganda, [[Rwanda]], and [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|the Congo]] meet. Part of the idea was that I would attempt to email ''Wired'' a series of dispatches on my travels. The act of finding a port into cyberspace would be part of the adventure… Before I left, I believed Africans could proceed directly from the agricultural epoch into an information economy without having to submit to the dreary indignities and social pathologies of industrialization".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.01/barlow.html|title=Africa Rising|author=John Perry Barlow|date=January 1, 1998|magazine=WIRED|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112234857/http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/6.01/barlow.html|archive-date=January 12, 2015}}</ref>

Barlow also returned to writing lyrics, most recently with [[The String Cheese Incident]]'s mandolinist and vocalist [[Michael Kang (musician)|Michael Kang]], including their song "Desert Dawn". He was seen many times with [[Carolyn Garcia]] (whose monologue is dubbed on the eponymous track "Mountain Girl"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jambase.com/Articles/4071/STRING-CHEESE-INCIDENT-UNTYING-THE-NOT|title=Music News & Concert Review|work=JamBase|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402134035/http://www.jambase.com/Articles/4071/STRING-CHEESE-INCIDENT-UNTYING-THE-NOT|archive-date=April 2, 2015}}</ref>) at their concerts mixing with the fans and members in the band, and was a close friend of String Cheese Incident producer [[Jerry Harrison]]. He also participated with the [[Chicago]]-based [[jam band]] [[Mr. Blotto]] on their release ''Barlow Shanghai''. Barlow was a spiritual mentor and student of [[Kemp Muhl]] and [[Sean Lennon]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thegoastt.com/bio.html|title=THE GOASTT|website=Thegoastt.com|access-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328145016/http://thegoastt.com/bio.html|archive-date=March 28, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> collaborating with their band [[The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger]] and making a cameo in their 2014 music video "Animals".<ref>{{cite AV media|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhcR4rdzzoM|title=[HD] The GOASTT (The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger) – "Animals"|date=April 10, 2014|publisher=YouTube|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161120182629/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhcR4rdzzoM|archive-date=November 20, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

One of Barlow's works that has remained in circulation is his "Principles of Adult Behavior", which he wrote in 1977 on the eve of his 30th birthday and continued to use to describe his approach to life.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16988568/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-obituary-electronic-frontier-foundation | title = Internet pioneer John Perry Barlow is dead at 70 | first = Russell | last = Brandom | date = February 7, 2018 | access-date = February 7, 2018 | work = [[The Verge]] | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180208090408/https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/7/16988568/john-perry-barlow-internet-pioneer-obituary-electronic-frontier-foundation | archive-date = February 8, 2018 | df = mdy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1kgmes/i_am_john_perry_barlow_cofounder_of_the/|title=I am John Perry Barlow, cofounder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, lyricist for the Grateful Dead. My most recent work is with the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Ask Me Anything. : IAmA|work=Reddit.com|date=August 16, 2013|access-date=March 29, 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531125810/https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1kgmes/i_am_john_perry_barlow_cofounder_of_the/|archive-date=May 31, 2016|df=mdy-all}}</ref> He described his reason for writing these as he was about to enter adulthood, "my wariness of the pursuit of happiness might be a subtle form of treason".<ref name="forbes asap">{{cite web | url = https://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/1203/096_print.html | title = The Pursuit of Emptiness | first = John Perry | last = Barlow | date = December 3, 2001 | access-date = February 7, 2018 | work = [[Forbes]] | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170205064221/http://www.forbes.com/asap/2001/1203/096_print.html | archive-date = February 5, 2017 | df = mdy-all }}</ref> While he considered most of the 25 statements similar to the platitudes [[Polonius]] dispensed to [[Prince Hamlet]], the 15th attracted attention: "Avoid the pursuit of happiness. Seek to define your mission and pursue that". That was counter to prevailing thought and "un-American". Barlow saw this more as a way to challenge how one perceived their life, their job, and their goals in life, and to not see achieving happiness as "an obligation [one owes] to Jefferson, the United States, or God Itself".<ref name="forbes asap"/>