Open Source from Robert Steele

StylesGrant · July 9, 2014

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy

@ MFK who had said

I agree with you that the very core concept of individualism is still relevant, but should be expanded, modernize. It's exactly what I call for when I'm proposing a free, ubiquitous "user-generated content"* - rather than a system in which every development should be assure by the "legal owner", for which we've absolutely no clues on his competence, motivation, "sense of life", - his personal reaction to the "acceleration of times", etc. StylesGrant provides us with many great actual, probant examples of monopolies deficiencies (for sure, I'm not denying the ingesting participation of the state in their constitution) - in which the veryleast common denominator is the fact that is it a specific "private individual" who's symbolically (rather than technically) in charge of all decisions and marketing strategies concerning the business. That, for me - isn't empowering, genuine, objective individualism, but merely some form of "ego trip", inherited from the savage tribes as the other term in this same coin: altruism. Ayn Rand wrote somewhere: "Under all its countless guises, variations ans adaptations, that doctrine - best designated as the morality of altruism - has come from prehistoric swamps to New York City, unchanged" - and that could also be said about privatized individualism (or private property): long time ago, people, like animals, were literally obsessed and fixated about their physical, immediate property - only because their mind's premise were scarcity rather than abundance, this being conditioned by an enormous lack of information and data about reality (not their neighbourhood or their country).

I am well aware there are teeth and nail hissy fit differences between how definitions were stated about open source between the zeitgeisters and ancaps, and that robert steele is by no means an ancap or nap person. There are areas where he is on board with zeitgeist, and other areas clearly where he is not.

I am given to the notion that he, certainly more than many, is much more aware and intimately knowledgeable about what a military state complex and neoliberal capital model with socialist policies can do and is trying to get beyond that scope.

So you should read the article. Then fight and whine a lot about it, and then hopefully begin dictating definitions to clarify what you perceive, what is, what ought, what you think should be in your ancap defense.

But this particular quote from MFK reminds me of one of the many monologues of Joe Rogan. It has come up on many of his episodes, and certainly was well illustrated by the likes of George Carlin and Bill Hicks.

Frankly, when I look into open source conversations it always seems to go back to hallucinogens. Perhaps this is a clash and merge between Randian Objectivism and Eastern metaphysics (maybe the whole premise of The Matrix) ...Huxley comes to mind. ..but these people who make these connections rarely enjoy being labeled part of the status quo.

Anyone who has come to these revelations is certainly not voting corporate democrat or looking for more intrusion into behavioral freedom of individuality.