Dare Obasanjo, Digital Rights Manager
So Dare Obasanjo emotes soulfully in “Shelley Powers on DRM and the Cluetrain Clique” about why Digital Rights Management must exist. He does not permit me to assume that he is satisfied with the current state of the DRM art but his attack on Lessig provokes me—in a healing way that does not stress me out or anything.
Before this post becomes totally unrecognizable to the properly assimilated, let me mention that there must be some connection between Lessig’s critique of Disney and DRM. The rasx() interpretation of Lessig on Disney is that back in the day Disney used public domain material from the Brother’s Grimm to establish the economic base of its company. Disney then played a role in making the way it came to power effectively illegal thereby eliminating potential competitors. And Dare Obsasanjo, a son of Africa, is not inspired to see that the ‘Disney move’ is based loosely but firmly on the culture that the Concerned Alumni of Princeton—and Dare Obasanjo—accept as “normal.” All of American business descends from the importation of “public domain” Africans, taken from the universe itself and placed into an artificial cultural of commerce that is supposed to provide a thriving social life for Dare and his buds. “You know, like, whatever… Slavery was made illegal—that’s good… right?”
The current state of digital technology makes the difference between potential competitors and customers too fuzzy and too uncertain for the Disney-land owners. The profits to be had in The Land of Make Believe must come from clearly defined techno-political boundaries. And of course these digital boundaries will be made as arbitrarily as the lines on the map in Africa today. And in the white-supreme future, these arbitrary Disney boundaries will seem as “real” as any African thinking and talking about their white-defined country of origin today. The current state of digital technology threatens the very concept of property itself. This current state of affairs must be settled by the super corporate powers and these days of uncertainty must be forgotten. “You know, like, whatever…”
Those that look forward to this white-supreme future do not need to see a relationship between the words property and reality. Billions of people on this planet have invested every fiber of their being in the “reality” of property. Any discussions questioning this “reality” are to be ignored, thrown into some Euro-centric pile called “communism” or, worse, “anarchy”—or the god-awful “religious fundamentalism.” These people clearly see the contradictions in my car driving and my refrigerator keeping and me writing this Blog post in Windows XP using Microsoft Word. None of the technological innovations enjoyed by my monkey ass would be here without that Disney spunk, right? I am so ignorant and unthankful to the god of every gadget I hold dear. I am clearly not a student of history.
So, dig, baby… I write posts like this for my grandchildren. I do this at my own expense as potential customers and corporate human resource people are likely to find these remarks on “public” record. So my grandchildren are not here yet but it is better to invest in traditions of wisdom than to be safe and sorry. It is better to be in the ancient house of mourning than the happiest commercial space on Earth. Dare Obasanjo and the billions of like-minded guests of the sales floor do not need to waste any time to reply directly to this post or even recognize its existence. They know what happens to guys like me—right? We definitely don’t go into management. Do you hear Billy Ocean over those shopping mall speakers? Effectively, here is Dare’s non-reply—a quote from his aforementioned Blog post:
Absolutists who argue that DRM is evil and should be shunned are ignoring reality. I especially despise arguments that are little more than throwing around dogmatic, pithy phrases such as “information wants to be free” and other such mindless drivel.
Yeah: Dare uses the words “mindless drivel” in casual conversations while in “the hood.” But I digress… When Dare makes mention of “information wants to be free,” he is directly referring to Lessig. Since my Blog post seems to be in “total agreement” with Lessig then clearly all that you see here is “mindless drivel” worthy of being despised. And when you despise something you just leave it alone as quickly as you can. Don’t you feel soiled reading this? Get out of here and make some real money! Be a part of the ownership society!