The Political System Must Be Broken Because People Are Too Informed

The liberal Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow thinks the political system is broken because people have too much information. Yeah. It was much better for liberals when the only info people had came from the liberal mainstream media.

The deluge of information available on the Web has made the country ungovernable, according to Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder John Perry Barlow.

"The political system is broken partly because of Internet," Barlow said. "It's made it impossible to govern anything the size of the nation-state. We're going back to the city-state. The nation-state is ungovernably information-rich."

Speaking at Personal Democracy Forum in New York on Thursday, Barlow said there is too much going on at every level in Washington, D.C., for the government to effectively handle everything on its plate. Instead, he advocated citizens organizing around the issues most important to them...