"Basically, if one believes society's values are screwed up, one must be prepared to eschew any benefits of such society as well as those responsibilities one feels are improper. Otherwise, it is difficult to believe that a charge of cynically manipulating society for one's own ends ("the world owes Me a living") is an invalid perspective."
It's possible to play the game while hating it, to submit to society's values only under protest, and to work -- perhaps very vocally -- for change at the same time. I don't like the current copyright laws, so I game them with Creative Commons and GPL licensing. I speak out at the drop of a hat against software patents, but I have more of them than I'm comfortable admitting to. I vote, and feel with some justification that this gives me a perfect right to complain loudly about the scoundrels who got in anyway.
Yes, it's an extremely cynical position. I'm a cynic. In this society it seems one must be either a sheep, a madman, or a cynic.
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Date: 2005-08-24 03:20 am (UTC)It's possible to play the game while hating it, to submit to society's values only under protest, and to work -- perhaps very vocally -- for change at the same time. I don't like the current copyright laws, so I game them with Creative Commons and GPL licensing. I speak out at the drop of a hat against software patents, but I have more of them than I'm comfortable admitting to. I vote, and feel with some justification that this gives me a perfect right to complain loudly about the scoundrels who got in anyway.
Yes, it's an extremely cynical position. I'm a cynic. In this society it seems one must be either a sheep, a madman, or a cynic.