THE FIGHT FOR INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
One of the most prevalent things in today’s world is our extreme ease of access to any and all information you could possibly want access to.. But is this really the case? We can look all over the world and see evidence of knowledge being hidden or suppressed by those with political or monetary power. In this article I will discuss the fight for the intellectual freedom that we are told we all have, yet few are able to take advantage of. It all started back in ancient Mesopotamia in the great city of Urak. I will quote the Sumerian epic entitled Enmerkar and the Lord of Aratta, in a speech of Enmerkar, an incantation is pronounced that has a mythical introduction. Kramer’s translation is as follows: Once upon a time there was no snake, there was no scorpion, There was no hyena, there was no lion, There was no wild dog, no wolf, There was no fear, no terror, Man had no rival. In those days, the lands of Subur (and) Hamazi, Harmony-tongued Sumer, the great land of...