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In the East poets are sometimes thrown in prison – a sort of compliment, since it suggests the author has done something at least as real as theft or rape or re
by irickt 13y ago
In the East poets are sometimes thrown in prison – a sort of compliment, since it suggests the author has done something at least as real as theft or rape or revolution. Here poets are allowed to publish anything at all – a sort of punishment in effect, prison without walls, without echoes, without palpable existence – shadow-realm of print, or of abstract thought-world without risk or eros. ... America has freedom of speech because all words are considered equally vapid.
— Hakim Bey http://hermetic.com/bey/taz1.html http://hermetic.com/bey/taz1.html
- disgruntledphd2 13y agoThanks for reminding me about Hakim Bey. Fun fact: (may not actually be a fact) Richard Stallman and the whole idea of copyleft, is borrowed from the works of Hakim Bey (which is where I read about it first).
- Zircom 13y ago>Richard Stallman and the whole idea of copyleft, is borrowed from the works of Hakim Bey (which is where I read about it first). >Richard Stallman...is borrowed from the works of Hakim Bey. I find it somewhat funny that Richard Stallman stole the idea of himself from someone else. (Also, who you're referring to as Hakim Bey, is in fact, Peter Lamborn Wilson, or as I've recently taken to calling him, Peter Lamborn Wilson plus anonymity.)
- Ziplex 13y agoFor those that don't get the last part, I'm pretty sure he's referencing Stallman's spiel about "GNU plus Linux"[1]. [1]http://ohinternet.com/Richard_Stallman http://ohinternet.com/Richard_Stallman