[ExI] fallout and female pop artists:: was: RE: lotta splainin to do

[William Flynn Wallace]

I don't think I will be re-reading the Ridley book and will be sending it
to you along with other one I promised - if you want it.

How do you even know Swift if you don't have a TV?  And does not having one
deprive Isaac of learning about the contemporary culture?

Swift - it's not only the pretty face, it's the expressions she makes.  If
in some other universe she pointed a finger at me, I'd go along meekly
without question.  Women never did know the power they had over me if they
had been more open about their attraction to me.  In one case I would
certainly have married her if she had been open about it.

One can be too conservative in letting new products go to market. Over the
centuries those hidebound people have been responsible for millions of
deaths and much suffering, and it's still going on.  Yeah, it's about power
and money - what isn't at a national level?

The Renaissance did great things reducing the power of the church.  If
Jesus had come along seven hundred years ago he would have done much more
than throw out the moneychangers.  More needs doing.

I have not thought about it enough to form an opinion, but Ridley makes a
good case for changing the patent laws, which he says stifles innovation
and invention.  Ditto for intellectual property in general.

But what happens to the poor writer, composer, who loses control over his
creations as soon as he publishes them?  Are we not ripping them off?  My
college students did not care about the artists when Napster was ripping
off the song composers.  I called it theft and they just shrugged.

bill w

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 10:38 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] lotta splainin to do
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> >…Just finished 'How Innovation Works' by Matt Ridley …
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> Cool thx for the reference.
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> >… Often the reasons were stupid, such as the ban on tomatoes (I think it
> was something else but this will do) enforced by the clergy a couple of
> centuries ago because they were not mentioned in the Bible…
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> On the contrary, me lad, they are mentioned, sorta kinda.  In the book of
> James, chapter 3 verse 12, a guy comments:  “Can the fig tree, my brethren,
> bear olive berries?  Either a vine figs?”
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> A tomato plant carries its seeds within the tomato itself, making the
> tomato itself a berry, the plant-world equivalent to… a… em… ripened
> ovary.  Hmmm, perhaps the old time clergy had something there.  But Billw,
> the real reason the clergy did crap like that is to establish absolute
> power over the proletariat, because they could read where a lotta their
> congregation could not.  That ability established POWER, good old addictive
> centralized power, the drug which corrupted humans back in the old days
> just as much as it does today.
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> >… - Greenpeace has convinced an AFrican country or two not to grow them…
> IOW a lot of payoffs of officials…
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> It’s all about power, me lad.  Centralized power addiction explains
> everything.  The only cure I know of is to decentralize power at every
> opportunity.  My fond hope is that the fallout of the FTX collapse will be
> to shine a light on the dangers of centralization of power in the monetary
> world as well as in politics.
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> >…Favorite new woman:  Taylor Swift - if you saw her commercials you
> would agree - I have never seen a woman cuter than her.  Have not heard her
> sing, of course. bill w
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> Billw, Where… have… you… been please?  Taylor is not only a stunning
> beauty but a good singer.  Not the Karen Carpenter brand of good, or Mary
> Travers good, or Julie Andrews good, or Judith Durham good, or even Cass
> Eliot good, but ahead of all those marvelous singers in beauty.  I don’t
> care for her choice of material, but very talented is that one.
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