The Privatization of Our Culture A deliciously reactionary read. found on the always excellent Follow Me Here

Worthy thoughts made public are immediately beyond their thinker’s control. Free and open ideas survive, closed and restricted ideas accelerate their eventually disappearance. Sometimes quality will free an idea, but not always. Thoughts are as alive as the beings that have them, and judged by faster and more merciless evolutionary laws.

All the money and all the lawyers in the world can’t shove the genie back into the bottle.

I would spend much more time worrying about intellectual property issues if people would stop killing each other in the name of various gods. When/if the world settles down again I look forward to focusing on important things that seem otherwise trivial by comparison.