Through categorising and measuring,
humanity has lost touch with its essence
and, in even greater terms, with its destiny.

Knowledge has become a peripheral aim.
Knowledge has lost its primary position in Human-Sapiens
identity to become just another tool that can be used to gain advantages
in the competitive struggle for excess

and the will to be measured highly
in the economic society of modern civilisation.

For the homo-economicus the idea of freedom
means being able to maintain a control of one’s life
and keep oneself afloat as comfortably as possible
upon the competitive waters of the excess-fuelled,
money-edified civilisation.

In order to do this, the majority are willing to sacrifice
other more Human-Sapiens freedoms such as the freedom
to obtain knowledge or the freedom to be granted the power
to use any acquired knowledge creatively and productively
in the arts and sciences.

Instead, intellectual freedom
is a victim to a desire by Excess to capitalise
the ownership of innovation and ensure, through copyrighting,
that profits made from artistic and technological innovations
are channelled upward into the sphere of wealth and power.

In this way, it can be seen how the oppression of knowledge
is predominantly a political problem.

A problem that will never be overcome
until the idea that wealth is a sovereign power
that must produce privilege,
even within democracies,
is tackled head-on

by democratic societies
in order to be transcended.