Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe

I love the freedom of expression book, I haven’t gotten to far yet but what I’ve already know is that people are protective, I mean that is what a copyright is protection for my stuff, inventions, processes, art, Ideas developed by me and used to make money, that’s the key term here, it’s about the almighty dollar, clams, “beenz”, Pay Per view. The truth, the hard truth of the matter is that everybody wants a piece of the pie. It seems, now don’t get me wrong, I want my own large bag O’ loot; and of course this is going to be a generalization, but the companies and individuals squabbling over what’s what are acting like selfish children, remember when want your brother or sister, respectively to play with your stuff and you, of course, wanted credit for the stuff, “that’s Mine”, or you can play with my Lego’s THAT way, you’re supposed to play with them this way, end of story. What you wanted was recognition and praise for the work you did, there was no money then, just fragile emotional needs. As we grew, the needs remained the same, after all, we’re human and humans are emotionally sensitive, internally stirring creatures, the thing that changed was our individual and collective power to protect our stuff. The Constitution gave us individual rights to pursue liberty and happiness; the dollar gave us the ego, the status quo and greed. People work for their money, yes, but they also what it easy. It seems we haven’t grown up very much yet, of course there are the givers and the takers, and sometimes the lines separating the givers and the takers are a bit blurred, however if we chose to give a bit extra and take a little less return on our dollar, then maybe the we would realize that our caregivers were not so full of shit when they accused us of being selfish.

1 Comments:

At 8:32 PM, Blogger Julie V. said...

I think some of what you're saying is like a defense of the idea of a "gift culture," where people give away knowledge (or stuff in the case of kids) and acquire a reputations based on generosity.

Also, one of the points I have on my notes for tomorrow's class is the fact that companies often see customers as criminals. I think this has some resonance with what you're saying too.

 

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