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The biggest deception was convincing the public that knowledge is a thing, so it can be bought, sold and change "owners". Convenient access to movies can be ind
by akomtu 4y ago
The biggest deception was convincing the public that knowledge is a thing, so it can be bought, sold and change "owners". Convenient access to movies can be indeed sold, but not the movies themselves.
- deadbeeves 4y agoAre knowledge and information the same thing?
- akomtu 4y agoI think these are synonyms.
- cassianoleal 4y agoPerhaps not the movie itself, but the media and its content are things that can be sold. VHS, DVD, BluRay. If you have the media and a compatible player, you can watch them. You can lend or sell them. That's not very different to a physical book. Even video-games are a bit like that. It's true that you may lose access to updates the game received after the physical launch but as long as you have the media (BluRays, cartridges, whatever) you can still play them on a compatible console, lend or sell them. With digital "purchases", you can only do what the platform allows you, for as long as they allow it, for as long as they exist.
- vehemenz 4y agoWhat it could possibly mean to suggest knowledge is or isn't a thing?
- swayvil 4y agoI think it means that knowledge and material things are quite different. For example, a material thing cannot be duplicated a million times in a second. Or transmitted a million miles in an eyeblink. And knowledge has no mass. We could probably draw a bunch of other distinctions too.
- vehemenz 4y agoI didn't get the impression that the parent was offering such anodyne observations, to be honest.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI don't much care for this weird equivalency that a motion picture is "knowledge", but regardless should every bit of knowledge be offered and given freely? Given that I know where I was last night and you don't is it within your right to demand it from me? Is it enough you want to have that knowledge that requires you then get it?
- akomtu 4y agoI said knowledge can't be owned. I didn't say that everyone is obligated to educate others. It's fine to keep a secret. It only gets murky when the secret becomes public.
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoWhat is the threshold for "public"? The movies are still only licensed for viewing by those who paid. Once someone has the knowledge they a free to disseminate it?