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there's something...
by Christian Schmidt-Rasmussen
There's something
strangely psychedelic and occult about W.T.O. (World Trade Organisation)'s
chapter on intellectual rights (the ownership of knowledge). It
doesn't recognise collective ownership; that society or people can
own something on a collective basis, it only recognise the individual.
Apart from being unreasonable, it also has led to some confiscations
of knowledge, which has quite a few perspectives which gives the
stateless capitalism possibilities as to transcending linear time,
and also it's attachment to capital. A large medical firm has patented
ayvascha. Therefore now, the Ecuadorian shaman is prohibited the
intake of ayvascha or to capitalise on the knowledge he's got about
ayvascha except if he pays a fee. The plant has for quite a period
of time been used as a kind of optic for collective knowledge. An
incredibly important tool for co-ordination of knowledge about the
forest, the fields about social interaction. A bit like confiscating
Poul Nyrup, S¿ren Ryge Petersen and Hans Christian Andersen all
at once. No matter what kind of rational arguments the firm may
have, it, along with the confiscation of the Indian Temple tree,
makes me glimpse further ambitions, for instance the conquest of
the universe in a large-scale psychedelic war. (1996)
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