Score: 10

"Refreshing"

submission: Via Sol 2

date: September 19, 2007

The game itself was fun. The satire was amazing.

Sometimes you endure so much bullshit in this world that you cease to notice it. You grow weary of refuting it. You begin to accept it. Then something like this game reminds you, and the whole world lights up. You feel energized and fight on.

Thank you for this game, which was jaded enough to wipe away my cynical non-activism.

Score: 9

"Good flash from an idealogy I hate"

submission: Trichinosis

date: September 13, 2007

This is an excellent bit of animation. However, I must address that the moral squealing of socialists and ethical activists always sickens me.

The world is driven by rational self-interest. Yes, first world countries spend large sums on meat, cosmetics, ice cream, and other luxuries. But no, abandoning these would help nothing. You can bleat on charity endlessly, but the essential reality is that handouts do not help - and indeed hurt - prosperity. It may surprise you that the poor peoples of this world, at large, neither need nor desire your pity.

Economic success is not evil. Enjoyment of life is never reprehensible. Foreign activism has never and will never solve the woes of any nation; the third and first worlds are locked into their positions as agressed and aggressor. It is economics, not the first world turning to asceticism, that will feed the world.

Now I'm going to go back to eating this delicious steak.

Score: 10

"Hurray for Liberty"

submission: The Philosophy of Liberty

date: August 3, 2007

In days when "freedom" has become a patriotic nothing word, it's refreshing to see a flash like this.

Basically, this is a Libertarian presentation. Hardcore socialists, anti-drug thinkers, and other types of social repressionists need not watch. However, this is worth seeing if you're at least moderate on the issue of popular sovereignty/social engineering versus individual freedom.