Posted on 12/29/2010 9:26:00 AM PST by LibWhacker
The Hamburg Association for Equality in Good Farting?
>> Has the music industry gone after small operators of day care centers, say? Or after 16-year-old babysitters? <<
I think that in an “ideal” world, anybody who uses copyrighted music to enhance his or her income/profit should pay a royalty fee to the music’s copyright holder.
But the world is never ideal. So the enforcement and collection costs of charging 16-year-old babysitters would probably always be so high as to make any such scheme totally impractical. Besides, it would “look really bad” in a political sense. Therefore, it just ain’t gonna happen.
On the other hand, for-profit daycare centers are few enough and identifiable enough that ASCAP and BMI could probably enforce a small fee — say $50.00 per year — for unlimited access to their catalogues.
So if charging daycare centers isn’t forbidden by U. S. copyright law, I say to ASCAP and BMI, “Go for it!”
Pop got the weasels.
LOL.I was afraid it might be something like that.
What’s bad about Hegel? He could be read either way. The Hegelian Dialectic was a great conceptual breakthrough. You may as well throw Kant and Hume in as well.
It’s like Emily Dickinson. Her stuff is still under copyright because it was published so long after her death.
Well, Hegel’s “murky, muddled” writing for one. What did he mean by “Geist”? Mind or/and Spirit? Can you be an admirer of Schopenhauer and a Hegelian at the same time when he thought Hegel a “charlatan and meretricious scribbler”?
Can we admire someone’s immense contribution to the absolute destructive, nihilism that Marx’s ideology wreaked on the planet, when all Marx had to do was make one substitution to the philosophy of Hegel......Matter for Geist?
This rationalization which actually is used to destroy Christianity and the concept of God and Good and Evil, but leads to the “final solution” has been most destructive to the human race.
I’m not saying that Hegel didn’t have some great insights—all philosophers do, yet I am just referring to the “end results” of his philosophy.
Ayn Rand gave a most interesting synopsis on Kantian philosophy.....in his denial of the possibility of knowledge.
She attributed all of the current negative, destructive, totalitarian direction of “thought” to be the result of Kantian philosophy.
German is muddled in general. Nietzche was one of the few who could write good prose. At least it translates well. I would say that Kant contributed a lot more to philsophical thought than Ayn Rand (is that contreversial?). Hegel and Marx were part of the 19th century urge towards evolutionary thinking (in the broad sense, everything moving forward to some ‘end’). As for the Infleunce Game, Marx was also influenced by Adam Smith (who he admired).
One of my favorite philosophers is the brilliant Nietzsche. Love his passion and aphorisms (writing) and complete understanding of all the nihilism of Postmodern German philosophy. He is arguably the most brilliant of the 19th century philosophers, IMHO.
I think philosophy is so intertwined, you can’t completely separate it from previous philosophy. Just the direction it takes....either it sends culture into a good direction, a bad direction, or it maintains the status quo. (Just my simplistic analysis.)
The Postmodern German philosophy is one of nihilism and pessimism. It leads to ugliness no matter how you spin the “utopia” without a God and hope.
The Christian paradigm led to the Miltons, the Michelangelos, the Shakespeares, the Newtons, the Galileos, the Dostoevskys, etc. and wealth creation and the most freedom and equality ever in the history of man.
If you study Christian Theology, it is no accident of nature that the above happened.
This Christian paradigm led to the elimination of slavery, the idea of dignity and worth and Free Will for every human on earth whose morality created America and the most dominate, creative, wealthy, free culture in the history of mankind. Power rests with God and not governments. Hope is created by God and not government.
But then, history and reality really doesn’t matter to German philosophy.
No one can deny the pervasiveness of Kantian philosophy in everyday life. Sadly, it is so very obvious. That Rand recognized the destruction of cultures and freedom, where certain philosophy was implemented, was her brilliance.
I am not saying she was one of the most brilliant thinkers....I am saying she probably had a better grasp on reality and the eventual consequence of ideas than many so-called intellectuals.
No ones philosophy is perfect. They all have flaws....some more devastating to people than others. Some of the ones she had pointed out, are proving to be so very true and ugly.
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