Trademarks, ideally, should be abolished, all copyrights replaced with Creative Commons, and patents reduced to public acknowledgments of those who created the product. These are all idealistic woulda-coulda-shoulda-oughta-bees, unfortunately, for our capitalist system compels such division, profiteering, withholding, deceit, exploitation, and thievery by those with the resources to command. Specifically those efforts by Corey Goode and his attorneys to trademark SSP (Secret Space Program) and Blue Avians, among others, are unwise, ill-founded, divisive, and just plain wrong. Drop the TMs!!! Please. Yes, you all seem to be at heart good people, and being good people doesn’t make you or anyone else right on this trademark hoopla pookla.

The most important aspect is the originators, designers, and builders are recognized, acknowledged, and even celebrated as such. They all belong to the creative commons of our planetary and solarian commons. Yes, solarian, as our species is already well on its way, our way, to explore our solar system. There are already plans to mine asteroids, build settlements on Luna and Mars, visit Titan, and send more probes to other worlds around Sol. All as Voyager exits our Sol System.

The larger question is what and how do we make a living in an economic system based upon capitalism and debt slavery? We lack a 21st Century economic system balancing individual liberties and social responsibilities or even know what such would look like thru the haze of our mutually conflicting opinions. How may such a new system function, especially as people keep doing what people do?

Capitalism has provided many opportunities, allowing entrepreneurs and small businesses to flourish, compete, and even cooperate. This system, however, i.e. the mix of codified and unspoken relationships between people and people, people and products and services, and people and consensual concepts of money, has gone too far. Many feel our system is broken beyond repair. Efforts to reform our fractured system have not always worked and even seem to accelerate the rise of fascist movements to strong-arm capitalism in a more authoritarian, nationalist, and racist direction.

Systems are not always all good or all bad, and they change over time. The numbers of humans and even other living things who benefit increase greatly in the beginning then decline as those who secured the top echelons of power for themselves place more and more barriers out of greed and fear. This isn’t the place to delve further into this morass, however, especially as people continue to argue for the future based on 18th and 19th Century isms. Those terms are emotional trigger words these days. They are no longer relevant except in a historical context, yet we seem unable to see beyond such labels.

We must understand, however, this global chaos, whether one perceives it as a Marxist analyzing the “anarchy of the markets” or a Finance Capitalist agreeing with the proto-fascist Trump as he declares, “We function very well in chaos,” allows for more and more people to manipulate, abuse, and exploit both laws and loopholes in the laws. Such are these efforts to scoop up and hoard trademarks in arcane or obscure areas while the rest of us are distracted by the mainstream news and putting food on the table while juggling debts. The UFO community has been further riven by animosities unheard of even a decade ago.
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