Sublime

2. To liberate the sharing of skills by guaranteeing freedom to teach or exercise them on request.

and, finally, furnish all who want to present an issue to the public with the opportunity to make their challenge known.

The inhabitant of the city is in touch with thousands of systems, but only peripherally with each. He knows how to operate the TV or the telephone, but their workings are hidden from him. Learning by primary experience is restricted to self-adjustment in the midst of packaged commodities. He feels less and less secure in doing his own thing. Cookin

A convivial society would be the result of social arrangements that guarantee for each member the most ample and free access to the tools of the community and limit this freedom only in favor of another member’s equal freedom.

The technological capability to produce tools and materials that favor self-building had increased in the intervening decades, but social arrangements–like unions, codes, mortgage rules, and markets–had turned against this choice.

What is fundamental to a convivial society is not the total absence of manipulative institutions and addictive goods and services, but the balance between those tools which create the specific demands they are specialized to satisfy and those complementary, enabling tools which foster self-realization. The first set of tools produces according to a

Paradoxically, the simpler the tools became, the more the medical profession insisted on a monopoly of their application, the longer became the training demanded before a medicine man was initiated into the legitimate use of the simplest tool, and the more the entire population felt dependent on the doctor. Hygiene turned from being a virtue into a

People who have unlearned how to decide about their own rights on their own evidence become pawns in a world game operated by mega-machines.

We must conceive of new relational structures which are deliberately set up to facilitate access to these resources for the use of anybody who is…

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