A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
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A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not civilization.
In most of history, societies have not been free. It's a very rare society that is free. The default condition of human societies is tyranny.
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.
Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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