Brutkey

Local Agency
@laprice@beige.party
The right way and the wrong way to run a knowledge economy for global well-being.

The wrong way is to limit the use of knowledge. To gatekeep it and require attribution and remuneration for every fact known, every theory considered, to channel it into only productive uses and prevent all others merely to create a hydraulic despotism of the mind.

The right way is to share knowledge as freely, as assuredly and as saliently as possible. Anybody who has a need or wish or even a tangential interest in a fact, formula, observation, or other informational object or cultural practice should have immediate and unmediated access to it.

The right way also involves a shared knowledge as cultural practice of embracing the human dignity of those applying the knowledge to the benefit (collective, future, theoretical, planned) of humanity.

The wrong way involves poisoning all knowledge used to defend against despotism by replacing it with synthetic garbage that prevents the absorption of new knowledge.

The right way includes social sanctions against being an asshole and polluting shared environments with bad ideas that poison shared environments and render them unusable.

The right way is not particularly difficult for the average person to follow; nor does it put obstacles in the way of them taking care of themselves.

The wrong way is a theft of time and energy from the vast majority for the benefit of a tiny minority.

In sum, the ownership class must be destroyed.