Peace Keita..
my son and I were just talking about this.. destructive technologies.. meaning technologies that threaten to radically change the way things are.. Cars that run on water was one of the ones we talked about.
the presenter used the phrase, " ..dictatorship of the knowledge of the world.. " Indeed. The Copyright system and the Patent system are both part of that.. they're about tracking and controlling information and innovation. You register something that threatens the Status Quo.. and they'll classify it.. and you. you will become an employee or you will disappear. But how can someone "own" an idea? And say, "no one else can extend my idea".. that's ridiculous.. But I also understand it. It has to do with Power.. and the preservation of power through maintenance of the status quo.
The Catholic church suppressed innovation in the same way modern governments do.. and for exactly the same reasons. it had very little to do with Christianity it had everything to do with the balance of power.. christianity was simply the vehicle of power of the day.. in the same way that capitalism is the vehicle of of power of today. From there.. we can speculate that the separation between church and state in America had to do with the desire to create new power system outside of the reach of, what I call, the Secular Monarchies of Europe and also outside of the Religious Monarchy of Rome. . anyway..
The Academy is also part of the system of control. If you're participating in an alternative fuel-source research project funded by Shell Oil company, you better understand that you will never change the world.. you will only increase the profits of that company.. that is the impact of capitalism as the vehicle of power.. Colleges act as a sort of honeypot for intellectually bright minds.. it lures them in then controls them. It's no wonder that the great inventions all happen outside of the academy system.
..getting back to the video.. Do you think it was evil of the government to confiscate and suppress the Water-cell invention? How should government handle revolutionary technologies that threaten the balance of power.. and wealth.. and influence in a world where your country reigns supreme?