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Now we’ve got the internet, but somehow it’s still locked behind paywalls and profiteers trying to gatekeep learning.

Pure Human Greed

Here’s what I see as a consequence of free educational book distribution: within decades, generations of people everywhere in the world will grow up with access to the best scientific texts of all time. […] [T]he quality and accessibility of education to the poor will grow dramatically too. Frankly, I see this as the only way to naturally improve mankind: we need to make all the information available to them at any time.—Anonymous administrator of the Russian shadow library site Library Genesis (LG), explaining its raison d’être

Free flow of knowledge is absolutely essential. Of all the things that should be accessible knowledge and the opportunity for every person to realize their full potential should be a must.

I see that you’ve mentioned “The Ego and the Id” by Freud. There is another work of his, five lectures on psychoanalysis from 1909 that i find very fascinating to read, https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/65347/sts-003-spring-2008/contents/readings/freud.pdf. Freud introduces the ‘Talking Cure’ and case studies that led to him developing what we commonly know as therapy.

@abeorch for family use, try something like friendica/hubzilla that provide many more features than something like mastodon which is only suitable for microblogging.