Hear, hear! But what would you suggest to assign value? Or how would people
get the money to live? etc. I'm living right now on a small inheritance which
is diminishing as I work. I don't know what the end result will be but I do know
that I begin to care less about what people say or want as a result. The meaning
of life to me has become the moment and what I can do in the moment. When I am
finished I will be finished.
REH
"Brad McCormick, Ed.D." wrote:
> john courtneidge wrote:
> [snip]
> > That thought raises, again, my ponderings over the concept of 'intellectual
> > property'.
> [snip]
> > Perhaps I inch (or centimetre?) towards a concept of 'co-operative
> > stewardship' of 'property' (tangible and/or intellectual) rather than the,
> > present notion of 'private property' ?
> [snip]
>
> Garret Harridan's classic essay "The Tragedy of the Commons" admonishes us
> about some of the problems visas that which is *not* "private property".
>
> I think that a certain Patek Philippe [watch manufacture] motto
> points in a constructive direction, for both the objects of
> human praxis and for the practitioners:
>
> You never actually own a Patek Philippe.
> You merely take care of it for the next generation.
>
> I would argue that all private property (except for
> "consumable", which should be minimized) should be
> *stewardship*, and that the trustees (aka "owners") thereof
> should be held accountable therefor (and, of course, they
> also deserve an appropriate "retainer" for their good
> offices.
>
> (Personally, if I had the money, I would not own nor
> have to do with anything which would not be
> lusted after as a donation by a major
> museum upon my decease.)
>
> +\brad mccormick
>
> --
> Let your light so shine before men,
> that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
>
> Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
>
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