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.
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.
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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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.
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