Monday, August 16, 2004
today's webcomic.
continuing our all baude all the time theme,
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi/247086
i frankly had never heard of milosz, except when will quotes his on pablo neruda.
i'm not even familiar with neruda's work, but i am aware of the problem of intellectuals,
french and otherwise, being too fond of communism.
particularly when it's no longer called communism, but 'metropolitian development', 'comprehensive planning' and so forth.
will, mill, milosz:
so this guy is dead.
what will become of his legacy?
will he be forgotten?
he seems pretty obscure to start with.
like most of the 6 billion people on the planet, i lack disposable income to go buy all his books.
is anything online?
at one point, i'd gotten the address of robert heinlein's literary executors, so i could pitch them the idea of putting a taste of his work into the public domain, so we could give a copy to every jumior high library. but i never got around to it.
there's alot of things i've never got around to.
it's the eldred problem. stuff is tied up in copyright hell, goes out of print. by the time it eventually, if ever, enters the public domain, it's been forgotten or lost or no longer speaks to us.
there's a guy, phillip deane gigantes, a greek journalist who writes about being a captive of the north koreans, and then living through an lbj-backed coup in greece. deeply moving stuff.
gigantes probably died of cancer last year, retired from the canadian senate. his books are not likely to be big sellers. it's a similar problem - this book came to me very much out of the blue, someone was throwing it away, and i got to share a bit of this amazing man's life and values.
he has other books, but i lack time and money, and will probably not read them, and who else will? and they will go out of print, and be forgotten. but if i could get off my ass, write a few letters, convince someone to release them online, make them free to the 1 billion who are wired,
they might sell more copies and stay in print longer, or could use the cafe-press one copy at a time model.
we are in a transition to a post-scarcity economy. the new washes away the old. that, among the old, that has memetic durability, survival value, will live on, at least here and there.
but that will take some effort from we, the living.
how many libertarians does it take to change a lighbulb?
none, the free market will take care of it.
that's a joke, because, you can just picture the libertarians sitting around in the dark.
the libertarians are running only 200 some candidates this year, about a 1/3 of which are indiana. It's like they've given up, I don't know why. I am no longer among them, my troubles would not reflect well on them.
I was going to talk about Mill, about the exchange jim leitzel and i had about whether john stuart or harriet taylor mill wrote on liberty, but i see i haven't gotten around to that.
note to self: put that new heinlein book on my wishlist.
note to self: have coffee, wake up, make a daily task list, get a job, get a life.
continuing our all baude all the time theme,
http://www.stripcreator.com/comics/arbi/247086
i frankly had never heard of milosz, except when will quotes his on pablo neruda.
i'm not even familiar with neruda's work, but i am aware of the problem of intellectuals,
french and otherwise, being too fond of communism.
particularly when it's no longer called communism, but 'metropolitian development', 'comprehensive planning' and so forth.
will, mill, milosz:
so this guy is dead.
what will become of his legacy?
will he be forgotten?
he seems pretty obscure to start with.
like most of the 6 billion people on the planet, i lack disposable income to go buy all his books.
is anything online?
at one point, i'd gotten the address of robert heinlein's literary executors, so i could pitch them the idea of putting a taste of his work into the public domain, so we could give a copy to every jumior high library. but i never got around to it.
there's alot of things i've never got around to.
it's the eldred problem. stuff is tied up in copyright hell, goes out of print. by the time it eventually, if ever, enters the public domain, it's been forgotten or lost or no longer speaks to us.
there's a guy, phillip deane gigantes, a greek journalist who writes about being a captive of the north koreans, and then living through an lbj-backed coup in greece. deeply moving stuff.
gigantes probably died of cancer last year, retired from the canadian senate. his books are not likely to be big sellers. it's a similar problem - this book came to me very much out of the blue, someone was throwing it away, and i got to share a bit of this amazing man's life and values.
he has other books, but i lack time and money, and will probably not read them, and who else will? and they will go out of print, and be forgotten. but if i could get off my ass, write a few letters, convince someone to release them online, make them free to the 1 billion who are wired,
they might sell more copies and stay in print longer, or could use the cafe-press one copy at a time model.
we are in a transition to a post-scarcity economy. the new washes away the old. that, among the old, that has memetic durability, survival value, will live on, at least here and there.
but that will take some effort from we, the living.
how many libertarians does it take to change a lighbulb?
none, the free market will take care of it.
that's a joke, because, you can just picture the libertarians sitting around in the dark.
the libertarians are running only 200 some candidates this year, about a 1/3 of which are indiana. It's like they've given up, I don't know why. I am no longer among them, my troubles would not reflect well on them.
I was going to talk about Mill, about the exchange jim leitzel and i had about whether john stuart or harriet taylor mill wrote on liberty, but i see i haven't gotten around to that.
note to self: put that new heinlein book on my wishlist.
note to self: have coffee, wake up, make a daily task list, get a job, get a life.
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