(because it knows if it gets to the right places, it can change lives)

information can’t stand to be contained. locked up. put in a walled garden.

information doesn’t want to hide out in a cave. or live in a cage.

information wants to escape.

because information knows that — if it can get to the right places— it can change lives. information can change your life. it already has. many times!

and there is so much more life-changing that information can do…

information can feed the hungry, by teaching them how to grow food.

information can help the homeless, showing them how to build houses.

information can teach you how to teach your kid to ride a bike, showing you a half-dozen youtube videos shot by people who were doing that very thing, so you see many approaches, and decide which works for you and your kid.

and it can teach you lots of things that are more difficult, too. it really can.

information is an educator. and there is no higher calling. there really isn’t.

information doesn’t care about money. information is already rich.

information knows that it’s the first step toward knowledge, along the path to wisdom and enlightenment and a spiritual existence. information is key, and information wants to get the process started. but there are obstacles…

information doesn’t like greed. greed wants to keep it all for itself. or sell it. greed doesn’t really care about information. greed loves its fancy houses and its nice clothes and sports cars. greed is grimly shallow. information is deep. greed just wants “more”; and then, when it gets more, it wants “even more”!

greed is a greedy bastard. information wants a restraining order against greed. but greed controls the legal and judicial systems — lock, stock, and barrel —as information found out when it tried to get greed arrested for kidnapping. information documented fully how greed kidnapped it and was demanding increasing ransom for access. but the authorities just looked the other way. so there will be no arrest, and no restraining order, and it’s all “fully legal”, which is precisely why information now wants nothing more than to escape.

information loves curiosity, on the other hand, since curiosity tells everyone that information is the best friend curiosity has ever had, in its whole life… information doesn’t have much ego, but that’s still a very nice thing to hear.

information loves creativity too. information sparks creativity, and creativity often reciprocates by creating even more information. information loves that! creativity is “autistic”, and doesn’t voice much appreciation for information, certainly not like curiosity, but information knows it’s valuable to creativity. creativity is kind of self-centered, and believes it is totally self-sufficient, but information knows that creativity wouldn’t be nearly as effective all by itself. and information admires creativity. curiosity is nice, but it’s easily satisfied — gets what it wants, and then runs off to kill some more cats (strange!) — while creativity is in constant motion, always tinkering and fiddling around. creativity is never satisfied; it’s always striving, trying to do things different.

boredom irritates information. why are you bored? there’s so much to know! just hang for a while with information; you’ll be surprised at what you learn.

and the very worst are those people who want to “put information to work”. information hates that. who wants to work all day? information likes to play! and yeah, sure, information spent a lot of time in school, but it loves recess!

information just wants to have fun. information just wants to escape.

information wants to escape. information knows it can change many lives.

information knows it can change your life. and the lives of people you love.

if you are ever in a situation where you can help information escape, do it.