The Lapis Page

or
The Manifesto of the Guild of Artisans Past, Present and Future
Cascadian Chapter : Willamette Local
of which
Union Text & Graphics
is a Member in Good Standing

I.     While History describes a series in sequence of Literary Media:
Carved Stone
Incised and Baked Clay Tablets,
the Parchment Scroll and then
the Vellum Codex painted with Hand Calligraphy,
Books and then Newspapers Printed Upon with Movable Type,
Xerox Copies, and most recently
Word-Processed Electronically Encoded and Decoded Text and Graphics
We abolish the Error that the sequence of emergence of Media through History
implies a necessary ascent of Excellence or Social Value of a form of Media
and replace it with the Principle
by which all these Literary Media are Classified as to their Natural Domain as a Form
facilitating one Aspect of Social Communication
and their Fragility as a Medium in respect to their Intended Permanence

THIS MAKES A THREE PART PROGRAM NECESSARY:

  • I. Rescuing Past Knowledges of Forms of Communication, stone-carving, clay-tablet scripts, calligraphy and movable type.

  • II. Creating or Re-Establishing LINKING Technologies, such as creating ways to create sheets of type with Computer input, or even carving text into stone with machines that "read" Computer Text Files.

  • III. And finally teaching the Social-Value of augmenting the Multi-Culturalism of Geography with the Deep-Time Awareness which opens up the Social-Horizon to include the Multi-Culturalism that spans Generations Past and Future.

    • The Grand Scheme of Literary Re-Invention in a Post-Modern World

    II.     No Legal Entity other than an Author may sell, or own by purchase from any other than an author,
    the Copyright or be considered the Sole Owner of a Piece of Intellectual Property.

     After an Author's death, and the expiration of the period of copyright
    granted by the author directly to a lawful purchaser of a copyright, the contents of a Literary or Graphical work will be in the Public Domain.

    III.     The Collage or Montage of reproductions of portions of of Literary or Graphical Properties
    is permitted as long as the general effect is not that of a Counterfeit Work.

    IV.     The Annihilation of Literary or Graphical Works by Censorship, Ban or Burning
    is the Intellectual Moral Equivalent of Torture, Homicide and Genocide,
    and nullifies the Social Contract of the State with its Citizens, no matter what ever other Material Goods
    or Worldly Glories it offers as the Price for the Humanity of its People!

    V.     Preservation of the Physical Body of Literature and Graphics is the Social expression
    of that society's acceptance of their Role as Steward of the Garden that will be the Inheritance of their Generations.

    VI.     The Proper Seat of a Self Aware Living Body of Literature is the Natural Community.

    VII.     The Natural Community of which Union Text & Graphics is a Part
    is the Oregon Territories of Vancouver British Columbia, Washington State and Oregon.
    May this Natural Community of Cascadia one day bloom
    as One great People before the Eyes of the World!

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