{"title": "The Cult Of Safety", "timestamp": 1731421602.6477442, "description": "On GNU's website under \"Malware\", the page lists [19 types of malware](https://gnu.org/malware). Each in one way or another hinders freedom of the user. Only one of those is \"Surveillance\". Yet the vast majority of Free Software advocacy focuses only and primarily just on Surveillance. It seems like we are losing our goal.", "author": {"avatar": "https://blenderdumbass.org/pictures/favicon.png", "bio": "Aka: J.Y. Amihud. A Jewish by blood, multifaceted artist with experience in film-making, visual effects, programming, game development, music and more. A philosopher at heart. An activist for freedom and privacy. Anti-Paternalist. A user of Libre Software. Speaking at least 3 human languages. 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He just vegetated around MIT. He began sleeping in his MIT office. He actually lived there: permanently (until 1998)! When being invited to give speeches, he overstayed at people's homes, sometimes for crazy long periods \r\n(ask Miguel de Icaza \r\n  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21103356\r\n  https://x.com/migueldeicaza/status/1173981287037751297\r\n  https://xcancel.com/migueldeicaza/status/1173981287037751297\r\n)\r\n\r\nTake a look at stallman.org . What a leftist bum Stallman actually is... amazing: he hates families, children, people; preferring instead saving the climate and other ridiculousness.\r\nHe surrounds himself with all these leftist, academic, \"intellectuals\" who have the same strange worldview. Campaigning for housing, food, shelter on behalf of illegal immigrants, gangsters and other bums; probably because they never really earned it themselves, being so \"privileged\". That campaigning and guilt-ridden propaganda has become their \"surrogate activity\", to quote Ted Kaczynski; a man whom I respect, because he could cut through all the leftist bullshit, and analyzed it very well."}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "It seems like **Anonymous Guest** here wrote an opinion on a different article of mine, where I support this or that Stallman view on this or that. "}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "It fits many articles. But I really did intend it for this article.\r\n\r\nFSF = GNU = Stallman (or Stallman-loving groupies)"}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "\"It seems like Anonymous Guest here wrote an opinion (...), where I support this or that Stallman view on this or that.\"\r\n\r\nNo. The comment is not an opinion on anything you wrote, but more an opinion of Stallman and the way he actually (!) started free software;\r\nand a description of his values/lifestyle."}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "**Anonymous Guest** just proved that his comment is even less relevant to the article in question. And if it is trying to be relevant, it just comes out as a non-sequitur. "}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "\"The Cult Of Safety\"\r\n\r\nhmmm... what about... \"The Cult Of Freedom\".\r\n\r\nMisinterpreting freedom to mean... allowing yourself to be victimized, by granting others uncontrolled freedom... is dumb. Real dumb.\r\nTime to end that lunacy."}, {"username": "blenderdumbass", "text": "Interesting. **Anonymous User** is apparently agreeing with me here. \r\n\r\nFor the reference, in [another article](/articles/3_Things_Keeping_Us_From_True_Freedom.md) I word the same concept like this:\r\n\r\n> By fully Free I don't mean a total anarchy. This would not be fully Free since it would be possible for people to have power over other people. Which is not freedom already. It's a different form of control.\r\n\r\nAnd in a [more recent article](/articles/Is_The_DeVault_Report_a_Spiteful_Metajoke.md) I worded it differently:\r\n\r\n> What if you(r) action, one you don't want to be intervened, is in itself an intervention into somebody's else action? Well here you have an action that is at moment defined as freedom, but it is something, when fighting for freedom you want to stop. This is how you get to the second, slightly more nuanced definition of freedom: Control over one's self ( body and mind ) and things belonging to one's self. And contrary to freedom, Power is: Control over somebody else and things belonging to somebody else. "}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "I don't think we agree.\r\n\r\nYou do not emphasize \"other\" enough.\r\nNeither did I, but let me correct it right here, right now:\r\n\r\nWe need to emphasize heritage, culture, identity, etc.\r\nIt allows you to distinguish, and differentiate.\r\n\r\nYou need to know the \"we\" and the \"other\".\r\n\r\nSo your rules must never be for everyone. Freedom-for-all is bullshit. You cannot go and apply things that work for free software (which is a very specific, limited, and curiously... global (!) domain), to things like people lives, and their identity, heritage, lifestyle, etc.\r\n\r\nNo! Because one man's freedom, is another man's degenerate-lunatic-hell.\r\n\r\nAnd if you think that thought... to the end... you might realize that it isn't even about freedom, to be honest.\r\n\r\nIt's about a people linked by heritage, tradition, identity... (*) to determine their destiny!\r\n\r\n(*) = (having the \"freedom\" / means) \r\n\r\n\r\nIt's NOT about people having to subscribe to some globalist one-size-fits-all agenda, full with propagandistic bullshit-concepts like anti-racism, one-family, we-are-all-the-same, one-global-family, people-of-the-world, people-of-the-planet, non-oppression-supporters, freedom-for-all, etc.\r\n\r\nSo it's not about people subscribing to lunatic progressive modernist oppression-free society, because that's globalist world-oppression-agenda in disguise.", "warning": "Advocates for Discrimination!"}, {"username": "Anonymous Guest", "text": "PS: sad to hear, that you are Jewish, but not religous any more.\r\n\r\n\"Born in Ukraine. Jewish. Living in Israel. Raised in a religious family. Not religious now. A fighter for freedom of all humans. A fighter against power of any human.\"\r\n\r\nI hope that one day you can find it in you, to revise that to become:\r\n\r\n\"Born in Ukraine. Jewish. Living in Israel. Raised in a religious family. Religious again! Have a Jewish family. A fighter for heritage, identity and fulfilling destiny of my people. A fighter for allowing other peoples to strive towards their heritage, identity and fulfilling destiny. As such: against oppression and thwarting of other peoples destinies. No to globalist world-agendas that undermine, ridicule, subvert, engineer, manipulate a people's identity and freedom, to become something that they are not.\"."}]}, "tab": "articles", "url": "https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/The_Cult_Of_Safety", "license": "cc-by-sa", "hashtags": ["Safety", "Privacy", "FreeSoftware", "Philosophy", "Freedom", "Paternalism"]}