“Because we tend--often correctly--to associate unfreedom with the presence of oppressive circumstances that we can and should work to change, it makes sense that we might instinctively treat the knot of freedom and unfreedom as a source of perfidy and pain. To expose how domination disguises itself as liberation, we become compelled to pull the strands of the knot apart, aiming to extricate the emancipatory from the oppressive.”
Source: On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint
“What do you think you’ll lose?”
“I don’t know.” I check your amber eyes for signs of impatience, but you don’t seem mad. Just curious.
“I’ll never make you tell me anything you don’t want to tell me,” you say. “But you are right, Callie. Sometimes it will feel like you’re losing something.”
I reach for another tissue. Wet, wadded-up tissues keep piling up in my lap.
“But Callie,” you say. “If we work hard, you’ll find something much better to take the place of whatever you give up. I promise.”
Source: Cut
“Il se tuerait pour être libre.”
“If we find that the seminal, genre-creating artworks of yesteryear would be illegal under the law and culture of today, we have to ask ourselves “is this really what we want?”
Source: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“In the absence of evidence on either side, the presumption should be against creating a new, legalized monopoly. The burden of proof should lie on those who claim, in any particular case, that the state should step in to stop competition, outlaw copying, proscribe technology, or restrict speech.”
Source: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“Call it the openness aversion. Cultural agoraphobia. We are systematically likely to undervalue the importance, viability, and productive power of open systems, open networks, and nonproprietary production.”
Source: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“In the middle of the most successful and exciting experiment in nonproprietary, distributed creativity in the history of the species, our policy makers can see only the threat from ‘piracy’.”
Source: The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“Life - a meaningless thing, draped in some moments, that can be given any title or definition.”
Source: In The Name Of Blasphemy
“Any right not exercised will be taken away.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light
“Any right not exercised will eventually be taken away.”
Source: Specks of Shadows, Flecks of Light