The Enclosure of Knowledge

This process resembles a process once enacted in the area of farming.  Common land was ‘enclosed’ by wealthy men so that they alone could reap the benefits of farming it. In current times the 'enclosure' is of knowledge itself. Once an area is enclosed by fencing it off and corralling it in order to exclude the peasants, who are stripped of the authority required to comment, it can then be farmed and monetised. The ‘experts’ who arrogate to themselves the right to do this, of course, begin with exactly the same basic intellectual equipment as anyone else. Many of their kind reside in Universities.