> [...] an unfortunate state of affairs that is *normalizing*
> the notion that music, art, words, software, whatever
> magically appear before you for your enjoyment, without any sense of
> how it got there.
[...]
> fuck you, pay me.
Ah, but isn't this state of affairs the exact opposite of that capitalism which tries to normalize the notion that things like "public" space, farmer's seed, broadcast media, and even individual words ("Yahoo!") are to be fuck-you-paid-for ...?
> When I talk about 'circuitous' I'm talking about the fetishization
> of "free" such that people no longer understand how they pay for
> something - like health care in currently existing societies that
> have "free" health care.
Or "free" lemonade, damn those kids!
/jordan