Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto
When I first came into contact with the concept of piracy and genuine copy when I was a child, I have always stood firmly on the side of piracy. Because in pure art and science, there is no such thing as piracy and authenticity. Only when it is mixed with money, vanity, greed, monopoly, and power, can the "good" and "bad" that determine the attributes of things be secretly exchanged with the concepts of "piracy" and "genuine" and confuse the public.
Anti-intellectuality is a political method that ZF has used since ancient times to make people more obedient and easy to manage. However, since World War II, with the prevalence of humanitarianism and scientific rationalism being raised to an unprecedented height, especially with the popularity of the Internet, the scale of information and the convenience of access, the previous anti-intellectual model has been unable to meet the needs of political parties to manipulate public opinion. , so use the method of "entertainment to death" and consumerism to implement "new anti-intellectualism" - making people's access to knowledge seem to be broad and free, but people's hearts have been occupied by entertainment and consumption and become increasingly impetuous , while those really important knowledge and information that no one cares about are quietly monopolized by the elites.
As stated in the preface to Amusement To Die: Orwell feared those who forcibly banned books, Huxley feared losing any reason to ban books, because no one wanted to read anymore; Orwell feared For those who deprive us of information, Huxley feared that people would become increasingly passive and selfish in the sea of information; Orwell feared that the truth would be withheld, and Huxley feared that the truth would be submerged in frivolity. Orwell feared that our culture would become a controlled culture, Huxley feared that our culture would become a vulgar culture full of sensual stimulation, desire and unruly games. As Huxley noted in Brave New World Revisited, libertarians and rationalists who were ready to rebel against dictatorships "completely ignored people's insatiable desire for entertainment." In Nineteen Eighty-Four, people are controlled by pain, and in Brave New World, people lose their freedom because of pleasure.
In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will destroy us, and Huxley feared that we will destroy what we love. People seem to have freedom, but in fact they are controlled by the invisible shackles of the elite. (especially in western societies)
And what Aaron Swartz has done is to break these invisible shackles with the Internet. This is a communist idea. Thinking of what the original political teacher said: primitive, feudal, capitalist, socialist, and communist, although different social classes have fundamentally different forms, their ideologies are mixed. People in socialist society will have capitalist ideas, and many capitalist People in society also have feudalism. And love is the highest ideology of communism, and it also exists in feudal society.
These points are very important: 1. The communist ideology of Aaron and a series of people (but it is too idealistic and completely denies the role of business at this stage) 2. Look at the invisible, goodness is seen or invisible in various ways The way to be rewarded (the last boy in the movie got interest in pancreatic cancer research through Aaron's open database and invents related drugs, of course there are many things that Aaron didn't see when he did this, but I believe he can learn from I believe in my heart that such wonderful things will happen, and use it as a driving force) 3. Not brave enough, which led to his suicide. Negative example. Maybe it has something to do with growing up as a genius without experiencing setbacks. And the lack of education that doesn't read much about the heroic history of romanticism.
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