Rejecting Blind Partisanship

• The justification for intellectual property- patents and copyright is that it is necessary to encourage investment and innovation. The trouble is, the evidence clearly shows that while intellectual property helps a little, it also hinders and the net effect is to discourage innovatio...

Pirsig then divides static quality into inorganic, biological, social, and intellectual patterns, in ascending order of morality (based on evolutionary order):

• Inorganic patterns: non-living things
• Biological patterns: living things

• Innovation is nearly always a gradual thing. Eureka moments are rare and possibly non-existent. 
• It is because of human nature and the intellectual property system that innovation is often described as heroic breakthroughs. It is all too easy and tempting for whoever makes a ...