Persistance

John Bysinger
The Poetry and Essays of John Bysinger
2 min readSep 5, 2017

Persistance

Memory is the persistance of thought.

The ability to take a reasoning process and create a record of it.

I’ve often said it’s not what you know, it’s if you know how to find out what you don’t know.

Learn to remember what you do know, remember it well, write it down and make it available to others.

When we share our accomplished thoughts this way, we provide memory for others.

Upon these shared pieces of memory, we can build new original thought that we could not by ourselves.

Freedom of information, and freedom to use it is the sign of a truely free society.

And only a truely free society will prosper through innovation.

If this is true, licencing ideas, restricting information access, and limiting it’s use is the truest form of opression.

Free your thoughts, share your knowledge, help others do the same, and you shall free yourself.

The idea of intellectual property is about power and control, not of freedom.

Fair Use in my mind means it’s your world, it’s fair that you use what it has learned, so long as you share what you learn as well.

It’s not about Open Source, it’s about Open Ideas, Open Thought, Open Memory, Open Reasoning.

Take everything you learn, everything your think, everything you dream, and make it…

Persist.

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