From insane patents for 'exercising cats' through to 'religious soap' - there are many hilarious and ridiculous examples of patents and trademarks in the US. However, there are also extremely disturbing precedents being set on what can and cannot be 'owned'.
For those who understand that 'all is one', the idea of ownership is mostly nonsensical, however, we all have individual will and can take control of 'things' in our lives in order to achieve goals - thus ownership is valid and very real. However, once we move into owning ideas and thoughts, we cross a line that introduces all manner of huge problems for us.
Owning ideas takes us from a world where ownership is used to overcome and work with scarcity, into a world where the ownership limits that which does not need to be limited. Not only this, it is ultimately done in order to attain wealth, which is a mechanism that is used to control the free will of other people for the benefit of those with the wealth.
So on a fundamental level, 'Intellectual Property' and the ownership of ideas introduce unnecessary limitation of human expression so as to enable those who use this system to control the free will of others. This is a compression system that limits human wellbeing and potential for evolution.
This older video from James Corbett's 'Corbett Report' is a very eye opening exploration of these topics which takes us through numerous rabbit holes that we all really need to understand.
Did you know that a substantial percentage of the genes in the human body was patented by researchers? Thankfully it seems that a 2013 court ruling in the US determined that this was a misuse of the patent system - however, numerous researchers TRIED to do this - showing us who they are and whether or not they value you as an individual (they do not). Examples of problems that this has caused for a time included people being threatened to stop researching cancer cures based on certain genes that were patented!
So, anyone who is convinced that patents and IP are essential to human growth, innovation and economic power should reconsider and carefully think about the points being made in this video!
