[LAU] ASCAP Assails Free-Culture, Digital-Rights Groups

[nepal]

On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:48:15 -0400
Paul Davis <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, nepal
> <nepal.roade at mypostoffice.co.uk> wrote:
> > In all this discussion, the system cannot be fixed because it is not
> > broken. It is psychotic at its most fundamental level! Money is the
> > manifestation of the problem. It is an attempt to accumulate energy
> > (everything at its simple level reduces to Energy), when it is in
> > Energy's nature to FLOW and do its work.
> 
> i take it that you have some alternative account for how a creative
> individual can ensure that s/he doesn't die of starvation if they
> attempt to pursue their creative work as a full time effort? or do you
> believe that such an effort is misguided, and that one can only be
> creative "on the side", while doing something that provides for the
> basic needs of shelter, heat, food etc?
> 
> i don't see my interaction with money as an attempt to accumulate
> anything at all. i subscribe to the timothy leary hydrodynamic theory
> of money, actually, in which there's enough flowing in the "stream"
> for us all to dip in our cups and get what we need as long as no
> psychotic idiot decides to build a dam. when i was younger, i saw
> money as the root of almost all evil. these days, my understanding has
> changed: those of us who live outside the equatorial zones on this
> planet don't live in a world in which our survival needs are simply
> met. ignoring any higher goals related to art, science, spirituality
> etc, work is required to ensure that we survive the winters, and that
> we have food for the whole year. somebody has to do this work, and
> someone will benefit. who these two parties are, and how they relate
> to each other, determines the structure of the societies in which we
> live. as much as my teenage kids would like to believe otherwise,
> there aren't any shortcuts around this: our world doesn't give us a
> free pass to life.
> 
> so, the question remains: is it a desirable goal for a creative person
> to make a living by pursuing their creativity full time? If so, how
> will they be renumerated for their work, and what role does preventing
> others from using their work in ways that reduce that renumeration
> play in making it all possible?
> 
> --p
> 

Actually my view is very simple on this. You have rights and ownership
of everything you bring into the world when you are born. Everything
else if provided by Nature for ALL living creatures of which Man is
only 1. 

As I said I'm not interested in trying to fix a system that is not
broken but fundamentally flawed. You only have to look over the
internet and see the thousands upon thousands of discussion groups and
lists such as this where this conversation is going on. It may not be
about music or artists, but it is the same fundamental conversation
about the same fundamental problem.

nepal.

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