John Perry Barlow wrote songs for the Grateful Dead, some my favorites, and the Dead were closely associated with the Acid Test movement in San Francisco, they started out in Palo Alto, and all that seems to have been driven by the CIA, so I think it’s safe to say he’s from the farm, as is Snowden, but apparently he angered the wrong powers that be and was terminated.
Thanks for that. Acid Test Movement! Rabbit hole time!