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< Burning the library of Alexandria
Copyright! The great mafia that, as elites tend to do, aims to keep information in chains in order to mantain an artificial market for the sake of, you guessed it, circulating money. If money stops it's endless cycles those who do nothing will perish, that cannot be allowed!
I have no sympathy for Google whatsoever, their digitizing sounds like a noble enterprise, and apparently it was at least being done with care. I do remember seeing a documentary about that effort. But, as implied, such a "noble" work done by an evil conglomerate is not any less evil.
I am happy to ilegally download as much copyrighted material as possible, and I think that is a good thing to do, and everybody should strive to do that. Then, if you really like a book and want to benefit the author, you can always buy the book, but we shouldn't be kept from reading it just because we haven't paid for it. Back to the 10 Cabala books, am I going to pay for each of them just to peruse it to see if it is worth keeping?
There is an even better way to "pay" for those books, and it is to keep the tradition alive, to keep them around for when the actual burning of the alexandrian library that is the internet does indeed burn in the next great political maneuver, and of course, to disseminate them as far and wide as possible.
And let the copyright elites die a million deaths. Hopefully, they'll be trapped in the building and share the destiny of their precious "property".
Copyright: yet another emergent property of enough people behaving self-centrically, whose behaving thusly includes believing there really is such a thing upon noticing enough other people believing it's more than an emergent property - i.e. that it's "real" - that one best join that club or seem like a silly little person that doesn't "get it".
I've looked high and low for it, an still haven't founded save as an alleged it/thing.
Q: Where is it?
A: It's real. It's just that it doesn't register with any of your senses.
Q: What?
A: That's right It's a different kind of existing. But that kind of existing is real too.
Q: But....
A: Is there something wrong with you? Most of us are saying it exists and is real.
Q: I was hoping there might be more to it than that?
A: Just how fucking stupid *are* you? Of *course* it exists, and of *course* it's real! Practically everyone but you knows it!
Q: But where is it?
A: OMFG! Enough of you. Come back some other day when you've finally accepted as real what the majority of people are saying is real.
And so goes the ongoing nightmare of cave shadows sometimes referred to as individuality....