# a critique about licencing everything on this site is free as in public domain freedom and exists for the purposes of philosophical critique artistic freedom sociopolitical commentary parody and satire that is zero copyright / no license / maximum rnd - please kopimi! as a research project of philosophy the republic of bob imaginary alternative internet pastime is by definition woke af in the precise open senses of eastern philosophical zen buddhism and living nonduality / emptiness awake from one's ongoing existential cognitive slumber explore and protect the living world and above all actively express kindness to one's fellow researchers === regarding traditional concepts of rights permission ownership originality and creativity an ethical rather than legal discussion big science / republic of bob imaginary alternative internet pastime does not exist is an example of the collective philosophical imagination at play and in any case should only be considered small potatoes culture isn't anyone's friend and work is merely slavery indeed to labor means to suffer blind fetishistic worship of profoundly toxic ecologically destructive and infinitely boring capitalist consumer objects whether materialist or virtual is an extremely unhealthy idea for spiritually evolving space apes truly concerned with the very survival and flourishing of profoundly beautiful living sentient trans alien arc mother planet earth rather than one mythical authoritarian big a author/tm republic of bob springs forth from organic spontaneously emergent and multiple simultaneous holographic neuro sociovisual plasmatic bioflux computing and collective mytho dreaming also known as scene any characters and events portrayed in the republic of bob are almost always at least partially fictitious and easily misconstrued if not often directly substituted andor fused with any other researcher dead living undead emergent or otherwise engaged in the rich pageant of post modem life's daily odd scientific activities it is therefore with healthy booming digital pirate laughter and a cheeky 'cockney voodoo beaver' wink that fellow researchers robert what henry swanson and bsz hypercorporation prefer to waiver away all aggressive claims demands of copyright or copyleft in any collection or expression of raw vision data and immediately see it located - as it always already was - in the libre public commons domain by-default: no rights reserved / all rites reversed speaking philosophically big scientists and fellow researchers of republic of bob don't want holy copyright automatically assigned by some or any magical higher authority as they were never consulted from the outset about the granting of any darn license whatsoever why should they then proudly enjoy the false freedoms implied through subsequently granting others some other equally arbitrary apparently less restrictive license for example cc0 the existing miserable and cramped worldview / system of inherently exploitative restrictions is nothing less than copyright itself as researcher dan berry says consider all such sokalled creative commons a commons without commonality it's neoliberal free market capitalist leather bootlicking jive by unctuous go-betweeners and aggressively conservative fence sitters the world would be better without such grifters exercising their greasy legal vernacular on cosmically pointless licenses and the infinitely varied application conveniently needing what a surprise lawyers to help untangle shed far simpler it seems to simply continue life and artistic creativity without any license law or restriction it never had or needed anyway the mere notion of intellectual property and ownership of ideas is a conservative cognitive absurdity and deathly dull anti philosophical abhorrence as an enoesque scenius republic of bob / robert what's republic playthrough may be actively used enjoyed mutated andor recycled in any manner desired without prior attribution or notice so consider '#rob' as pre post-copyright: no license anticopyright maximum rnd: please kopimi! one should not act like a duckhead as there are social consequences which mark one out as a poor scientist without class or style fellow travelers please kindly remix reprint reuse and upcycle all this freely for freedom in any cool artistic manner desired without naming source - which in any case happens to be singular united and indivisible humalien consciousness itself just think about it not that one couldn't have done all this anyway under one's own free moral and philosophical impetus like intelligent creatures without being told to also known as all we want from you are the kicks you've given us all rights and wrongs already gently dispersing in the gentle morning mist collecting on the distant low hills of a wide semi arid and abstracting virtual desert plain // [[republic of bob contents | imaginary pastime republic of bob]]