The Freedom Search

Foreword and analysis of reality:

• to have a dialogue, one needs at least two partners. When only one speaks, is a monologue
• there is nothing to talk with those who do not hesitate a second to militarise civilians by decree
• As The Minister said, anyone who challenges the State to a pulse, loses

If you were not aware, Spanish Congress rejected the first try to pass a bill on Internet covert censorship under the disguise of Anti-downloads, in disguise of the new Sustainable Economy Act (Ley de Economía Sostenible), intended to re-float Spanish economy.

After that, the President of the Spanish Cinema Academy invited some ‘representatives’ (of his own choice) of Spain’s digital society to an informal breakfast, in order to re-take the debate, as the divide between the show-business people, close to the socialist government, and spanish society went so bad due to the former’s accusations of “every internet user is a pirate stealing our bread”.

Meanwhile, some of the socialist President’s strong-men were quietly doing their job to have the bill passed through the senate, without having so much debate in the House.

Then it turned out that at the end of last week, a lawyer made a call to the President of the Academy, Alex de la Iglesia. The idea: to work for The Common Good© and write a proposal to amend the un-amendable: the censorship section of the law.

After commenting his idea to the other guests at the famous breakfast, the representatives (of themselves) quickly took distance… but not enough, as a certain radio station made his own wikileaking session and announced that a minimal agreement had been reached between Internet Representatives© and The Government©.
And then everybody started shooting, bringing up the phenomenon of the “fog of war“, which cause tremendous casualties on all sides due to friendly fire.

Anyway, now all of them retreat: “I did not wanted to do that”, “they lied to me” …
But while this happens, while Internet Representatives©’s who got engaged into the trap fire on their own side while dodging bullets, the process to pass the bill continues, invisible to eyes and questions.

All this brings up the concept of “organic intellectuals“, which I will refer as OI onwards. The OI is that intellectual who,

unlike a traditional intellectual, is a bourgeoisie scholar who cultivates strong roots in his/her community, working to maintain links with local issues and struggles that connect to the people and their experiences.

This piece of Marxist theory could be summarized using the words of Marx himself, in just two words: Useful Idiots. Onwards, Useful Idiots©. The Useful Idiots© are

Those people who in the fight for an ideal, can be transformed into instruments of political groups.

Usually, once they finish their work, they end up being shot, or enjoying a guided tour of Siberia or collectively crucified (and even then the problems continue).

This is exactly what is happening to Brian of Nazareth the lawyer David Maetzu, proponent of the amend, who is being shot from everywhere, accused of being a collaborationist, a censurer, a destroyer of p2p, and of causing San Francisco’s Earthquake and anthropogenic climate change.

But as the Useful Idiots© from the Judean People’s Front, the Judean People’s Popular Front, the Popular Front of Judea and the Judean People’s Union are still trying to fix something that should not be, and engage to shot the one who until two days ago was his colleague and comrade in arms, the Spanish Central Politburo will be laughing in their office, and then continue with their work of propaganda, manipulation of public opinion and distraction maneuvers, so anyone will be unable to see the leaves, least to see the tree, and much less being able to see the forest.

By the way, despite being a slow and painful death, crucifixion is an outdoors activity. So, out on the door, line on the left, one cross each.

If you do not know who was Richard W. Sears, you’re not an “entrepreneur.” You should go back to school and repeat the whole cycle of education. But as I am in a good mood, you must only see Chapter 6 of the show America: The Story of Us (a show tremendously recommended otherwise)

Back in 1886, Richard Warren Sears was working as an agent-telegrapher at a railroad line in Minnesota. A shipment of 2500 gold pocket watches arrived at the station where he worked. As no one had asked for them and nobody wanted, he decided to buy them all. He then offered the watches to their railroad colleagues using the telegraph… and sold them all at $14, earning $2per clock. $5000 profit, clean… in 1886.

The success of the sale was in Richard’s ability to observe and recognize opportunities: at the time, late nineteenth century, pocket watches were considered a sign of urban sophistication. Moreover, due to the recent connection of both American coasts by the iron horse, a new concept which was applied a few years ago in England, was implemented there too: time zones.

Already in 1840, British Great Western Railway synchronized, for the first time in history, a series of local times in different towns of England with a standard time, Greenwich Mean Time.
Ten years later, what in England was known as Railway time, started do be implemented in America, to set and synchronize the five rail lines that crossed all the continent, coast to coast.

Among the labour need for rail operators to use new and more accurate clocks, and these watches being considered a luxury and a provider of social status to the inhabitants of rural America, Richard sold them all in six months, winning 10 times his salary rail. He bought more watches and started a mail order service along the railroad line of Minnesota.

Richard Sears saw yet more clearly the opportunities offered by the railroad for the sale and distribution of goods. And so was born the catalog sales, and so it was founded Sears Roebuck & Co., the largest retailer in the United States until the end of the World War II.

Sears began selling watches. Alvah Curtis Roebuck, a watchmaker, the first employee and eventually founding partner, was hired to repair those watches that were returned. And then joined Julius Rosenwald, a tailor, which extended the offer in the catalog.
Watches, ladies and gentleman clothes, plows, bicycles, refrigerators, pianos, lamps … all in a 700-page catalog.

Richard teamed two decentralized networks, railways and telegraph, and clearly saw an opportunity: Sears Roebuck & Co. could sell anything and send it from Boston to California in less than a week.

A hundred and so years later, Sears joined the bandwagon of selling and renting movies via streaming.

While here in Spain there are some who miss the good times, all around the world there come out new businesses that only those with sight will take some profit of them. 100 years ago, Sears sold 10,000 units of sewing machines using a decentralized network, the railroad, and that was the first step in creating the largest national economy in history. Today, they sell and rent movies using the distributed network of fiber optic cables: the Internet.

Those who wants to see, they will see. Those who do not, are going straight into the ravine, whilst following the piper.

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Pied Piper – illustration by Kate Greenaway – Project Gutenberg eText 1834