crying game
It's time to talk about crying.
Crying!
So good. I always forget that it's the best drug ever. Last night I experienced that intense kind of physical pain that leads immediately to crying. It was either cry or vomit from the pain, and my body chose that natural medicine. I never remember what crying without choice is like. When I cry every couple of months it's usually an emotional breakdown, and I can choose whether to do this semi-taboo thing, making myself feel much better but perhaps embarrassing myself a bit, or suppress it and feel a little dull and shitty ( I guess it's not much of a choice when I put it that way, huh?). But crying from pain is a much more exciting story.
I'm fine now anyway. Short-lived exciting pain.
I always know someone's gonna be ok if they start crying, because then I know that they're feeling a really rewarding and pleasurable sadness, rather than a stagnant pain. When my friend had a terrible hangover from a drug, I was really worried until I visited her in her tent and found her both cracking jokes and crying. Her body must be very good at fixin itself. Very Sexy. I'm gonna market a beverage that shows this horribly bloated and red crying face on it (a woman, I think it's gotta be female, it might be too weird to be a guy) and call it Very Sexy. Maybe it's an infused vodka.
Hey bloggy blog, can I give you all my best ideas ever? I want to give them away, because I sure ain't using them. I don't care about property anymore, I want to give all my valuable stuff away for free. Copyright law pisses me off more than almost anything, it's really the extreme expression of our society's most basic and annoying value, ownership. I think the mistranslation of it a century ago resulting in it's extreme form today ( the ownershop of copies in addition to originals) was actually inevitable given our more and more extreme ideas about property.
Wow, was that my first rant? I think it was, this blog is like a really intense fast relationship, I'm getting all the bases covered in record time. Emotions, rants, musing, jokes, links, my very first middle-of-the-night entry.....nice.
posted by Vanessa @ 03:29
2 Comments:
Ownership isn't a bad thing by itself. Exclusivity of ownership is what you're driving at. If something went into the public domain then we'd all own it.
I am assuming your talking about music and pharmaceutical patents and the like. If there was no exclusive ownership of these things, then supply would not be limited. Limited supply increases price and we all know increased price is the motivation for people to innovate. Without the right to exclusive ownership, innovation would be severely stunted. Very few people innovate for innovation's sake.
For more on this debate, google articles about the impending Blackberry blackout. I hope that was helpful.
I refute your assertion that very few people innovate for innovation's sake! Or at least, that material/financial gain is the dominant motivator for innovation. If this is not your argument, then kindly ignore me. But for evidence supporting my view, see the Creative Commons project, the "Open Source" phenomenon, the popularity of MAKE magazine (makezine.com), the effort and creativity and yes, even money, that goes into the constructed experinces that are given away at Burningman, etc. Material gain is a motivator, but people create out of the need to create, and as a rule of thumb, I argue that great ideas come from a place that is not aware of the concept of financial reward.
Anyway, what with the coming end of material scarcity, the concept of restricted access to ideas will become even more ludicrous than it already is. All hail the Nanotech Era!
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