One of the real travesties of our time is the active, continual sacking of the libraries of Alexandria inherent in every public website and application which is

One of the real travesties of our time is the active, continual sacking of the libraries of Alexandria inherent in every public website and application which is lost to the sands of adtech, paywalls, and the changing whims of anyone called "stakeholder" Like, it's a metaphorical question I must give you, but who owns the information that we as a people produce? Take away the considerations of current law, and think about it in a different paradigm. Imagine that we had some impending apocalyptic event heading towards us, and we needed to as a people work together instead of competing. (Just a rough thought experiment, not that exactly, but just come along for a bit of a ride) In that circumstance, the human population of earth forms this more cohesive collection, and in that frame, a group of people who produce some great work of art and invention and function, and then they or other people ruin it or destroy it, or simply bury it underground. In the frame of humanity as a collective being, that happening is akin to if you have some brilliant idea that you're scared of whether it's good or not, and so you write it down and decide it's not good and throw it away, but it could have been the seed of the creation of cold fusion, or romeo and juliet, or whatever. The metaphor breaks down quickly, but this societal, special (as in species) loss is such a cancer on us as a people, and I wish there was a way to remove its crippling effects. But then again, it's akin the balance between to the law of nature and selection, and human societal safety nets. It would be easier without it, with a safety net built around everyone, but would we be inspired to such greatness? Or, what things wouldn't have been produced without the incentive of billions? Are you sure that number is zero? Please, don't take my positions as argumentative in the debate sense. This post is part complaint and part thought experiment. I also wonder what brilliant art we've lost because a child died of malnutrition or ~~malattention~~* neglect. * instead of erasing "malattention" the unnecessary word I just coined†, I'm striking it with pen, so that it exists. Yeah, that's a bit meta and on the nose, but I like it. † 148 Google Results at time of writing‡, so "independent of, but created after, a few others" ‡ Receipts: https://web.archive.org/web/20191214060156if_/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://www.google.com/search?q=%22malattention%22 https://web.archive.org/web/20191214060156if_/http://web.arc... By the way, I really wanted to delete this instead of clicking "reply", so: You're welcome/sorry.