Explanation:
What this means is that the religious right on both sides of world terror are taking us to hell in a handbasket, should we look up and try to take in our overall circumstance. The big picture explains small events like legislative change, and what can be predicted to follow on.
The point made here was to identify the origin of exploitative mayhem, so as to _disarm_ it.
It may read like 'metaphysics' or OT abstraction, until one realises that metaphysics (supernatural causation myth) and abstraction (what $ is to commodities, like data, cogs & oil) are precisely what most limits human potential today. The corporate apogee reaching into our lives is best understood by the _fundamentalism_ of its cause. This explains its ostensible global nemesis - a countervailing fundamentalism.
I think we'd all agree that fundamentalism (absolute anything) runs counter to natural science (eg there's no complete vacuum). So why are we allowing fundamentalism to govern our lives? Historical accident precedes collective conscience, in evolution. That is, should we try, a healthy world can be (re)built when we consciously replace competition with cooperation, around all our productive capacities. 3,000+ years of scarcity, deprivation, war and profiteering are then transcended, by humanity organising a world of plenty - including free software.
Starting point? Recognise the fundamentalist currents dictating "scarcity, deprivation, war and profiteering" around the world, and start speaking out for "a world of plenty - including free software". Dispensing with the patents and legalism entirely would accelerate this, but we have to live in the present and find ways to cooperate (deflect the push towards individualised, disempowered consumerism), where 95% of our PC equals have yet to learn how to care about it (free software) at all. So concrete licensing resolution is unavoidable. But the numbers are against FOSS, until its general significance is made clear, known and adoptable. Until then, it's a sitting duck.
As when GNU/Linux got started, I'd argue that the GPL still has the longest legs (for socio-economic reasons).
Carl Cerecke wrote:
Rik Tindall wrote:
Our biggest challenge is to finally and bravely claim back material causation from the idealist mystifyiers of fear (superstitious / deferential innaction). Science is humanity's liberator - hone your thoughts.
My biggest challenge is to understand some of your posts.
Fair comment. I appreciate the criticism - that completes the dialectical process of historical analysis. Hth.
Cheers, Carl.
One further observation dating back a few months, around the GNU/Linux debate, without ascription:
Whereas discussion of Free Software issues is most definitely Linux-related (On-Topic and political), insinuation that it is not - thereby to shut the discussion down - is Off-Topic and simply political (freedom neutralised for consumeability). Debate is necessary.
Regards, Rik
