For a site espousing the benefits of freedom and libertarianism to write software which supports only corporate, proprietry, locked-in media codecs which require patenting and licensing fees, whilst snubbing the true open media formats which are publically available to everyone for free, is more than a little hypocritical. Talk is cheap I guess, but maybe you should practice what you preach if you want to be taken seriously.

And to Brian… no worries mate. You didn’t sound like a know it all. You sounded like an idiot.

Nice WP plugin. Interesting but (and forgive me) naive social philosophy. I don’t know if I have it in me to start a debate right now… not sure if I should — well — I suppose I could say that there is no such thing as true freedom in a material sense of the word. We can only approximate it, and even then it’s deceptive because it’s like a double-edged sword. On one side it plays into a libertine ideal with human creation and accomplishment as its seeming end, the other side leads to complete depravity and a loss of the will to the lusts of the senses and flesh. Ultimately the flesh wins out, because “freedom’s” ultimate goal is truly nothing more than to satisfy the desires of the flesh — which can never be accomplished. It simply enslaves the human spirit and soul into a never-ending battle with material and sensual need, which is something you are currently witnessing as your philosophy plays itself out as the political mantra of today’s culture and society.

Freedom has come to represent the human “right” to carry on selfishly and without any regard to morality or decency. Oddly enough, the worldly pursuit of it ends as a negation of the human will, the assertion of which was actually the goal it had initially set out for itself. At its best it will leave you living like a backwoods transcendentalist, which is a selfish and Godless pursuit if ever there was one. Humans are invariably a fallen and devolving creature, and without the intervention of God Himself, will ultimately lead themselves to doom — with, or “without” the influence of decent political leaders. True freedom — or the lack thereof — is a spiritual matter at its core. Liberty and “happiness” can and will only be found in coming to know God through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, the messiah, The Saviour — however offensive that may seem to one’s intellectual sense.

Regardless, may God bless you in your search and I truly hope and pray that you eventually come to know what it is you are looking for. Thanks again for the cool plug-in.

Humbly and earnestly,
Brian

p.s. You truly cannot serve two masters at once, and to believe you are serving none at all is to be serving the devil, whether you believe it or not. Only God knows what is best for humanity and unless you know (and obey) His will, then you are simply shooting in the dark, no matter how good you believe your intentions and understanding to be.

p.p.s. Not that it matters, but I considered myself to be a libertarian and an “anarchist” in the past. I did study a fair amount of political philosophy and I remember it was disputed as to whether or not true anarchy, like true democracy, was even possible. It appears as if no matter how much society attempts to beset itself of leadership, leaders (or tyrants) just keep popping up out of the woodwork… like flowers or weeds I suppose…

p.p.p.s. “In terms of libertarian anarchism that would require every individual taking full responsibility for their own well being whilst always recognising a mutual benefit in the well being of others.” – Interesting statement, but communism shows us that humans in their natural state will often fail to recognize the mutual benefit in the well being of others when the self is seemingly put at risk. I say seemingly because perceived risk is a subjective thing, whereas most humans consistently see themselves as being “at risk”, we have this (although well-intentioned) objective rarely being realized in actuality. On the other hand, acting in an effort to realize some mutual benefit to oneself seems rather loveless to me. I understand the logic behind collective action, but it requires certain environmental conditions to be constantly met. In the absence of coercion, and in terms of game theory, the cheating individual always wins in a game where the winning strategy benefits the whole to some extent, yet the cheater to a slightly greater extent. Honestly, I’ll give you the fact that people appear to be “selfless” in this way when most, if not all of their basic needs are being met, but strip them of those comforts (or the possibility that they may never be realized in this lifetime) and the system breaks down entirely, and becomes one in which individuals are coerced into acting accordingly. …anyway, I’d rather not take any of these up as talking points… unfortunately, your ideals are based on a significant misrepresentation of whom and what we are as human beings, unless you assert that some of us are in fact “demigods” and are somehow exceptions to the rule… in which case I will tell you need to read what I wrote above (in my first postscript) a few times at least…. anyway, that’s a lot of p.s., and I feel like I’ve said a lot here. If you’ve made it this far, I appreciate you taking the time to read it. God bless you and forgive me if I’ve misspoken in some way.

Anarchy Media Player needs to support .ogg files
( Ogg Theora+Vorbis )

Regards
Creator

Problem is that people (or maybe just I personally) perceive the SWASTIKA like the very first symbol at your pages.
I must admit I hesitated a bit IF I should continue to read your pages, when I saw your logo.
My first reaction was: OOPS! Wrong direction, away!

Fortunately I suppressed my first impression and continued reading.

Regards

peter

Now if only we could do something about the logo you’re using … it’s just all so damn disturbing

It’s meant to be disturbing as I find our world an increasingly disturbing place to live in what with the developing terminal global energy crisis and its intensifying predatory resource wars threatening nuclear war along with the collapse of our insane growth based global economic order, the collapse of democracy and the rise of of authoritarian police states, while completely overwhelming our capacity to deal with the deterioration of our utterly profligate modern way of life over the next decade and beyond. But not to worry as runaway global warming should provide a final solution to the human problem by 2050 and thereafter.

The swastika ban is an-archos, the negation of leadership which is the actual form of our global modern order. I see no leadership anywhere, only the contingent, reactionary and meaningless autonomic responses of global ‘leadership’ elites mindlessly driven by the competitive demands of modern technology. We’re a ship of fools with no one at the rudder or charting a course and we’re headed for planetary catastrophe.

http://www.polemos.net.au/
http://heidegger.an-archos.com/cat/zeug/