"Intellectual Property"

"Intellectual property" names
the deed by which the mind is bought
and sold, the world enslaved.

"Some Further Words" by Wendell Berry, American Poetry Review, May/Jun 2002

Read the entire poem "Some Further Words". It contains much good philosophy for living, such as these lines: "I don't want to live on mortal terms forever, or survive an hour as a cooling stew of pieces of other people. I don't believe that life or knowledge can be given by machines."

And

                                            I know
a "fetus" is a human child.
I loved my children from the time
they were conceived, having loved
their mother, who loved them
from the time they were conceived
and before. Who are we to say
the world did not begin in love?

"Some Further Words"