The Crystal Ball Has A Question Mark

Every Generation Welcomes The Pirates From The Last.

Monopoly Controls Have Been The Exception In Free Societies; They Have Been The Rule In Closed Societies.

It Might Be Crazy To Expect A High Government Official To Speak The Truth. It Might Be Crazy To Believe That Government Policy Will Be Something More Than The Handmaiden Of The Most Powerful Interests. It Might Be Crazy To Argue That We Should Preserve A Tradition That Has Been Part Of Our Tradition For Most Of Our History -- Free Culture. If This Is Crazy, Then Let There Be More Crazies. Soon.

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.

If There Were Two Candidates, A Democrat And A Republican, Who Each Committed To The Same Kind Of Fundamental Reform, Then The Election Would Be An Election Between The Vice Presidential Candidates. It'd Be Just Like The Regular Election, Except It Would Be One Step Down.