Tradition of Citizen K!

With this post we lauch our new domain of thinking on this blog
We call it "Citizen K!". We shall explain it best by using a quote from Lawrence Lessig whose new book, Free Culture, is available for download

"we come from a tradition of "free culture"... "free" as in "free speech," "free markets," "free trade," "free enterprise, "free will," and "free elections."

A free culture supports and protects creators and innovators. It does this directly by granting intellectual property rights. But it does so indirectly by limiting the reach of those rights, to guarantee that follow-on creators and innovators remain as free as possible from the control of the past. A free culture is not a culture without property, just as a free market is not a market in which everything is free. The opposite of a free culture is a "permission culture"—a culture in which creators get to create only with the permission of the powerful, or of creators from the past."

With this blog it is my desire to explore the idea of a Citizen and the idea of Tradition - a Being of Free Culture in a bondage of Transactional Enterprise of Lowest Cost producers of Crap, and Expanding of Culture as a Continuous Birth of Ideas in a world "amusing itself to death".

It will be fun and absurd for I plan not to become preachy or serious in my explorations unless somebody takes away my Permission to be Human and I become a machine that vomits language.

Citizen K!

Comments

[The Authorities at The Machine]

Dear valued Citizen K!

Be warned. Your Licence to be Human will expire in less than thirty days. Funny you should bring it up! It has come to our attention that your account has fallen into arrears. No amount of money can help you now. There will be no deal. But try us anyway. Make an offer.

As well, please note thet We take offense at and/or to the notion that We here at The Machine vomit language. There is more than a subtle difference between vomitting and regurgitating. We regurgitate. Much as pigeons do. To feed the young. Open wide K! You are only a hungry ghost of a pigeon in the way of the Machine.

yours truly,

The Authorities at the MachineTM

[Fritz Perls]

I think I grasp the whole thing, the big weenie of Kombinatorium. A little mustard, a little relish, but hold off on the thought please. Gives me indigestion.

[K!]

Dear The Authorities at The MachineTM

Thank you for the warning.
We have expired Citizen K!