Copyleft vs. Copyright. All Rites Reversed!?
all communication is propaganda.
all publication is political.
all business is personal.
all art is pornographic.
mind you,
free your mind.
the issues that are now disscussed on the hype-level of political discourse are everything but new. back in whose days where we said of us "on the internet no one knows, you're just a dog" pretty much anyone with a decent standing (in the most static sense of the word) knew about the infamous Steward Brand quotes:
"Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive.Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine -- too cheap to meter. It wants to be expensive because it can be immeasurably valuable to the recipient. That tension will not go away. It leads to endless wrenching debate about price, copyright, 'intellectual property', the moral rightness of casual distribution, because each round of new devices makes the tension worse, not better." -- Steward Brand, in the early 80ies of the previous century
"The counterculture excelled at trying a whole lot of stuff in a short period of time. Almost everything we tried either failed hideously or didn't pan out. Communes failed, drugs went nowhere, free love led pretty directly to AIDS. A lot of people thought Mao Tse-Tung was a hero. Domes leaked. Graphic art was dreadful, except for Andy Warhol and Robert Crumb, the underground cartoonist. The rest was basically tie-dyed. The Music was good." -- Steward Brand, commenting his 60ies of the previous century
these days the fun is even better. i always love swarms that team up in crowds to listen to pretentious gospels of their new zeitgeist guru e.g. Richard Barbrook, just to name one random example off the worst-seller bookshelf.
why? fucking really, why? why on earth!?
well, because i'm a stupid skeptic - whence i enjoy most the very questioning
my own skepticism. ( questioning as the most humble act of being :)
to finish off well polished i would like to kill&yank [0] words of my soul-mate Marko Prezelj: "Joining this circus gave me the opportunity to present my opinion .."
[0] these days the political digital bullshit discourse hype calls this:cut&paste. same formal concept - different pretentious gospel :)
have fun,
sokrateska
Disclosure of Potential Conflict of Interest: too many conflicts to name any.
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