Some cultures understand that all knowledge belongs to all humanity and that you can only profit from controlling a share of the knowledge.
Some other cultures try to control 100% of their cultural knowledge and end up with 100% of a worthless nothing.
Guess who is what
Some other cultures try to control 100% of their cultural knowledge and end up with 100% of a worthless nothing.
Guess who is what
Some cultures created patents so that they could profit from a share of invention, which is infinite and belongs to all humanity.
Other cultures created a writing script, then hoarded it for only their elites so that knowledge could not be compounded or traded among commoners.
Other cultures created a writing script, then hoarded it for only their elites so that knowledge could not be compounded or traded among commoners.
Some cultures discovered how to harness the power of combustion and used it to create industrial economies that raised the entire level of the human species.
Other cultures hid their scientific discoveries behind mysticism and turned them into religions for exploiting each other
Other cultures hid their scientific discoveries behind mysticism and turned them into religions for exploiting each other
Some cultures looked at the horizon and were consumed with knowing what lay beyond it.
Other cultures sat on the knowledge they had and decided to eat, defecate, fuck and sleep this day and the next, and the one after that too if Sopona the god of smallpox didn't take them away.
Other cultures sat on the knowledge they had and decided to eat, defecate, fuck and sleep this day and the next, and the one after that too if Sopona the god of smallpox didn't take them away.
And the thing is that by just looking at the conversations that modern homo sapiens have on Twitter, you can very easily identify who comes from what cultures, regardless of how many centuries removed they are from their ancestors.
You can always tell.
You can always tell.
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