It’s wonderful when you have it, and horrible when you don’t.
I love it.
Be it in life, in things that we care about, in the stuff that we buy, in the things we say: Exclusivity is perhaps the most treasured virtue.
But isn’t it sad, that we yearn for exclusivity?
I mean come on, the whole open source thing is about sharing. P2P is about sharing. Friendship is about sharing. Heck, not feeling jealous because your partner flirts, only to mock you for a moment, is one kind of sharing. Society thrives on sharing. That’s how we were “programmed”.
Yet, we want exclusivity.
So much so that we are willing to pay whatever price needed. Patents, intellectual rights, relationships, just about everything.
I, for one, cannot decide, if exclusivity is good or bad. Or where can a line be drawn. Because there has to be a line somewhere. Certain things have to be exclusive. It would just not be right. But however deep I have tried to probe, there is no definite line, forget thin ones. I am not sure it’s a line. It’s more like a curve, and a constantly changing one…
I guess, I’ll trust my sub-conscious to do the line drawing part. It’s so much better that way. What say?
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Do clones have navels?
