One of the largest capacities of human beings is to use your mind to create walls and imaginary barriers and then end up believing them as if they were real and true.It is the great specialty of our species and one of our most marked characteristics.This has been as we have conceived fictitious, temporal and spatial barriers, which subsequently resulted in calendars and borders, which have ended subjugating as if they were something tangible and real.But we have not settled for that.Once we have altered our view of dividing it into imaginary fractions universe, we have devoted body and soul to classify these fictitious lots, dividing his time in classes and categories until thereby have laid the foundations for one of the concepts more pernicious and absurd ever conceived by the human mind: the PROPERTY.
And the property consists precisely in this: divide the universe into imaginary parts, believe that these divisions are real and then try to take ownership of each of the portions.The concept of intellectual property is a mere abstraction, based on other intellectual abstractions (the imaginary divisions), which has nothing to do with the true nature of things.The strange thing is that despite being one of the most absurd abstract concepts we have ever conceived, is both one of the most deeply embedded in our psyches, to the point that, for most people, it is impossible to understand that the concept of property has no meaning.An example: the ownership of the land, so many rivers of blood and pain and suffering caused throughout history.
What sense does owning a piece of land?How you can have the boldness and daring to conceive such a ridiculous idea like owning a piece of land or the entire planet as a whole?The reality is that we live in a small corner of one of the one hundred billion galaxies in the universe, on a floating rock with a length of more than 4,500 million years and we, a tiny and fragile conglomerate biochemical ephemeral material, unable to persist for more than 80 miserable orbits around the sun, we decided that this great rock fragments, belong to us personally and exclusively.
Although the earth has been here for 4.5 billion years and was already orbiting the sun long before we started to crawl over it.Although each of us, individually, just come and that in one breath we descompondremos in this same land.And even though the rock will be here, billions of years after our demise or possible extinction, as has happened already before with so many animal and plant species.Despite all this, the obvious reflecting our smallness, both timescale and physical, have the audacity to consider ourselves owners of this piece of the universe.We affirm with pride and arrogance is "ours".What is our "property".
It is as if a simple fly, finished born and only live 15 more days, flew to the length and breadth of an island, proclaiming to the four winds and arrogant pose "This island's mine, is my lawful property, including forests, mountains and people or animals that inhabit it. "Would laugh, right?A tiny bug that just appeared and you will soon die, believing owns not only the island, which takes millions of years there, but even of our own people, who probably will survive it for long.Well, that is exactly what humans are doing to the earth and everything in it.The rationale we use is the same as the fly.
Following this reasoning nonsense, we divided the planet in countless imaginary fragments. Fragments belonging to persons belonging to ethnic groups belonging to private entities, municipalities, countries ...And at the height of absurdity we have created laws and regulations to define which begin and end those fictional factions that exist only in our minds, reaching ridiculous limits so exacerbated that it seems incredible that we continue keeping them without shame ourselves.Because when you are an owner of a piece of land how long that depth reaches land that belongs to you?Does it come to the center of the earth? So, magma moving passing through that section of land also belongs to you? And the underground waterways? What if your imaginary piece of land includes a portion of one of those bags decomposed material we call oil? And what happens if a bullet pierces a tunnel on earth is your property? Does the mole yours? And the hole made by the bullet?
To resolve important questions, we buried under millions of regulations on the ownership of land and its resources and each country with their legal framework has created its own limitations, each more arbitrary.So someone in country A landowner is only up to 15 meters deep, while someone in a country B it is up to 50. etc, etc, etc,Regulations absurd to divide up the pieces of the planet that we have defined in our own minds and that there are just there.And what we consider normal and logical thing in the world!We believe that owning a piece of the planet is natural, when it is not at all.We say as we say, but the most bombastic seek legal level to justify expressions, land ownership, as a concept, has the slightest sense.Deemed owner of a piece of land is as ridiculous as owning a cloud across the sky.At the end of the day, a cloud is also a fragment of the planet, as part of its atmosphere ... then why do not we also split the ownership of the clouds?
GET A CLOUD!The first step to owning a cloud should be, first of all settle what is its value.To assess its value estimate water could potentially download the cloud and it would require the assistance of an "expert appraiser meteorologist clouds" would be necessary.Once assessed the nominal value of the cloud, its final value would vary depending on possible future scenarios associated with the cloud, such as its possible spontaneous dissolution potential binding capacity with other clouds to form storm fronts and possible places that the cloud could download their nominal value in the form of water.All these calculations would occur in the cloud market, where weather experts would constants estimates about the future of all clouds acquired and its oscillating value. And where investors could buy and exchange different actions based on future estimates of cloud values.
That is, they could be acquired values associated with clouds still unformed estimated to storm fronts and rain discharges produced yet and buy and sell such securities, etc, etc, etc ...Does it seem absurd and arbitrary? Something pointless? Need more absurd and arbitrary that ownership of the land?Why?Maybe you should know that the stock market that we take so seriously works analogously to the cloud market. More specifically the futures market and derivatives.It is more in the market for equity derivatives comes to speculate on fluctuations in interest rates, ie the oscillation of single digits, while in the example above, we would with something tangible, as would a cloud and water that could potentially download.The purchase and sale of clouds is only a graphical example of our infinite capacity to justify the most absurd concepts created by our mind.Have no doubt that if you were born in a world where there is buying and selling and moving clouds million, you would see it as the most natural thing in the world.
It would have university studies appraisers clouds and weather economy, elegant experts talking about it on television talk shows and interviews leading companies engaged in the business of international conflicts clouds and from management.So for you, inconceivable to think that the clouds would not owned by anyone and if someone claimed that ownership of the clouds is absurd, you unseemly.You would be as shocking as it is now accepted that land ownership is meaningless.
THE UNIVERSE IN PROPERTYWhat consequences involves dividing the world into imaginary pieces and feel exclusive owners of these fragments?Where are the limits of this concept meaningless?It seems that these limits do not exist.That's the trouble with the concepts and ideas: once in place and are operating logics are widely accepted, tend to reproduce and extrapolated to other areas.That has led us to be willing to imaginary tear the whole universe and appropriating each piece.A good example of this in the ownership of genetic material.
There are companies that exclusive ownership of specific gene sequences are given. Genetic material of plant, animal and even human origin.Some collective cry to heaven for it. They consider it nonsense, almost immoral.But to be fair, is not reasoning similar to that of land ownership? Simply to divide the universe into imaginary parts and appropriate them separately.Indeed, ownership of genetic material occurs through a technological leap that allows us to determine these divisions, something we could do in antiquity.But the original concept remains the same as in the case of land ownership.And therein lies the problem.As technology advances, where to situate the property boundaries of the universe?Do we adueñaremos other planets? Will ownership of companies, countries, rich people?
If a private company finances a spaceship that exploits an asteroid or comet, is it owned? Can they pull off from its orbit and exploit its mineral resources?We buy and sell the rings of Saturn?What will happen to the moon? How does the will distribute? Will property that trod the first or the first to be installed to live in it?If a company buys the visible face of the moon, you can put huge ads in it to be seen from all the earth, but others do not want?
But we go further.If a company can appropriate a gene, just for the simple fact of having isolated in a laboratory, then why reason can not appropriate a color?For example, the yellow color is perceived color on the photo light receiving wavelength between 574 and 577 nanometers.It is a fragment of the electromagnetic spectrum. Why not seize it and charge the user to see that color?It may seem a ridiculous idea, but if I ever sell genetically engineered eyes, and a company is able to control the photoreceptors of the eye, reason why they will not charge you to see a particular color? As more you pay, the more colors you enjoy! Colors with exclusive shades, to see life brighter! Eyes genetic premium vision for VIPs! Eyes on the poor black and white!
Are there not corporate colors already?Does the airwaves are not privatized?The only impediments and the only limitations, once we are in the dynamics of the property, reside in the technological capacity to implement the charges and a legal framework that lolls to certain interests.And following the same reasoning, why not patent a newly discovered subatomic particle?At the end of the day it is a fragment atom "isolated laboratory".
If you have a property with commercial value and can be patented procedure to isolate, is absurd that someone gets to charge for it in the future where the laws permit?If a mega corporation created a cleaning of air pollution, could charge you for the sunshine you to receive on your home?At the end of the day, it would be thanks to your service might enjoy that sun, in the same way that the water supply service charges you for drinking water than we previously belonged to all natural and free.Or could perhaps cobrártelo government as imposed by access to sunlight?
If there are procedures to clean the air of toxins and pollution, do you charge for clean air following the same logic?And at the point of absurdity, why not patent an invented word and receivables pronounce or hear? At the end of the day, it's the closest thing to a genetic sequence created in the laboratory. You just need to replace the amino acids by letters.Have no doubt that if it has not been tried is by mere technological and physical limitations associated with the effective management of the word and the corresponding payment.No charge for pronouncing "Coca-Cola" or "Samsung" not because it is an absurd idea, but because they can not establish the methods of control and charging for it.Because fortunately and at least for now, the technology has many limitations than greed.
Perhaps these examples just given you seem absurd and exaggerated.But they are not as much as it may seem.Because ultimately, the property is an invented by the human mind concept.An abstract concept, like the very laws that govern within a legal framework or associated moral sense that we gave.And legal frameworks and laws change, as history shows.And the moral sense associated with those laws, too.So can you ensure that someday you will not see any of these examples turned into a sad reality?Nothing should shock.The concepts that represent the logical basis to reach these ends and we fully accepted and are part of our normal as a society.This is the big problem is allowed to be put in place as "normal" a concept that makes no sense.Once introduced the concept tends to reproduce, to be extrapolated and degenerate progressively reaching new heights of absurdity and void of meaning.Obviously, we have cleared the equation a concept much more complex property and would lead us to a place of much deeper discussion: ownership of those things that we manufacture ourselves and we can not find naturally in our environment; tools, vehicles, clothing, buildings, artistic or intellectual creations ...
But perhaps, to address the discussion on this second level of ownership, should be settled first doubts about the most basic level, the ownership of natural fragments of the universe.The truth is that our only real properties as human beings, we ourselves, our bodies, our minds and our time.And nothing more.Nothing on this planet, beyond that belongs to us.The ownership of land, air or water, are absurd concepts. Without any sense.We as owners of the land we like the sound of our steps, the heat that gives us the sun or the brightness of stars.However, despite not being more than a figment of arbitrary, this concept has enslaved us and caused millions of deaths, wars, pain and suffering.The property is just that: one among countless empty concepts installed in our mind, we have led the collective madness ...
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