With all due respect to all involved here, it may as well be pointed out that in
the last days
of the kali yuga all esoteric information is open for all to see. Evola made
this clear if
anybody [this I would imagine is "riding the tiger"].
Even the very fact that there are free published texts in the website
Evola_as_he_is testifies
to this phenomenon. The first record of western copyright involved two Irish
monks going
to war over a biblical manuscript. The bible hardly being an original work in
the first place.
Of course it may as well be said that the written word itself is an abomination
of divine
law.
The above is no call for democracy on my behalf but simply just another sign of
the
decadent age we live in .
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evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Toni Ciopa" <hyperborean@...> wrote:
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> With all due respect, Mr. Blaine, "copyright" is a Western notion, not a
> Semitic one. Quite the contrary, one could claim that it is a Semitic trait
> to take profit over another man's efforts.
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> It is not a question of "paying" for knowledge, but rather the elementary
> recognition that knowledge itself has a cost. Obviously, it requires the
> efforts of the author to accumulate his data, formulate it, and then the
> efforts to disseminate it. Of course, in our era, the cost of dissemination
> is illusorily small, especially if someone can go to a public library, scan
> it, and post it willy-nilly.
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> This is just the kind of leveling that Evola so intransigently opposed in
> his writings: there is the false idea that "knowledge" is free and can be
> democratically disseminated in an egalitarian fashion, as though any Tom,
> Dick, or Harry had some sort of "right" to it. This overlooks the more
> difficult to recognize cost of knowledge: That is the cost of "work on
> oneself", which cannot and will never be captured on your scanner. In our
> day, books on esoteric subjects are readily available: anyone can read them,
> but there are very few who actually understand them.
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> From:
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> On Behalf Of Martin Blaine
> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 5:28 PM
> To:
evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [SPAM] [evola_as_he_is] Re: Men Among the Ruins - online version
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> It's pretty scary in fact, how zealous librarians are about that
> stuff. There is certainly a list of "banned" books somewhere, even if
> you can't get them to admit to it. I request books sometimes that I
> know they'll never put on the shelf, and they give me back the most
> absurd excuses for not buying them.
>
> I see your point about the Evola books being current. -- If you can
> find them, that is. I certainly don't think they're at your local
> bookstore. I was rather shocked to find "Revolt Against the Modern
> World" in the Sunnyvale library. It's sitting now in front of me on
> the desk, soon to be in electronic form.
>
> I think people should have access to this kind of information.
> Whether or not it means somebody is going to lose a few bucks. Which
> I don't think it really does. People who have money tend to buy the
> books. They prefer something with a cover to a big sheaf of loose
> paper. But the people who are on a limited budget are just not going
> to get a chance to read this stuff at all unless they can get a free --
> or relatively free -- copy. And that's why I format the books to
> print in as few pages as possible. I'm concerned with getting the
> information out there for people who would otherwise not have access
> to it. It's rather a -- dare I say it -- jewish way of thinking to
> put profit ahead of knowledge.
>