(last edited on April 29, 2006)
Why be concerned with organizations of hierarchies of shaved mammals that follow religions of church, state, and corporation? The free human animal should not allow the doctrine of these herded animals to poison a free soul with hatreds and hysterias. What they call history and defend as important to know so that it is not repeated, is a bible of politics and prejudices that perpetuates hatred to the next generation. There are no nations or economies or religions or political parties. There are just other beings like us living in various habitats, organized in hierarchies, with slaves and outcasts, like any animal of our kind. There are the prisoners, the imprisoned, and the free, whom the prisoners struggle mightily to imprison -- first by imprisoning the mind, and then, if necessary, the body. the price of freedom is the inability to let freedom go, no matter the cost, for nothing matters more. There are those who fight those who would be free, having been taught that there is something "wrong" with how some choose to express freedom.
There are those that say one thing is "right" and one thing is "wrong." This is the sign of a mind that talks to itself in pieces, a mind that is afraid to simply feel and be; a mind that is imprisoned by the lie that we are, by nature, broken. There is nothing besides the totality, encompassing all places and now, and yet there is an infinite number of ways to perceive it, and it is this perception alone that distinguishes one human animal from another. The free animals live encircled by the animals who are controlled by a system of hierarchical oppression; this is the normal state of affairs for the human animal. Freedom must tolerate anger and despair, and respond with a worldview that humanity is good, and will live peaceably and consciously if not imprisoned in a system of institutional fear, poverty, and lack of control over one's life and activity. There are those that have been taught that freedom is "wicked" and that free life and free expression "ought not" be. This can result in sympathizing with the very system that has made one a cog in the hierarchy that places them at (or near) the bottom, powering a drama of perpetual self-imprisonment that is helped by concepts of church, state, taming, and harnessing. When the reality of death is repeatedly denied, a population becomes more willing to be organized to die en masse for the hope of a reward after whatever must happen in the place of death for "chosen" people. Killing for an idea is the second most perverse form of murder. Killing because you have been ordered to is the first. Original thoughts and honest freedom in expressing them are more interesting than the ability to repeat someone else's thoughts on cue. What matters is what the mind is like after reading a book, not whether it can spit entire pieces of it back out. There is no freedom when one is afraid of any god, law, or gun. fear is self-flattery. Anger is impatience. No person is angry unless the animal is afraid. Denial of the animal is renouncement of freedom and frees no one from fear. When the animal in the costume comes and demands that the free animal kill for the lie of doing evil for a greater good, the only conceivable justified violence is that used to prevent the costumed slave from succeeding in its depraved task. The teacher who enforces a wrongful rule out of fear of the consequences of non-enforcement teaches the student to be an easily-controlled, easily-corrupted coward. The teacher who refuses to accept "no" from the student teaches the student to not accept "no" from others. "Guilt" is merely a parasite of negativity that has nothing of value to say; it doesn't belong there and is remarkably easy to kill. "Doubt" is similarly killed, as are the voices created by the lies taught by church, state, and any other manipulating entity. Belief in anything more powerful than one's self is resignation that empowers nothing and destroys something unique and beautiful. Impatience is the folly that tells one to not focus; to not realize full potential. Learning does not come by digesting pre-written chunks of the product of genius; learning comes by living life for a purpose that is consuming, and by refusing to accept the comforting lie that the typical human animal is not a genius. As beings with complex brains, all are capable; all have a life worth living. There are more ways to perceive than there are people. There is no reason to ignore one's own perceptions in favor of the perceptions of others, and no reason to demand one's own perceptions be mirrored by others. Intelligence agencies, news agencies, money, and god are responsible for all of the wars and have never told us anything that was completely true -- yet those four write the history books as if they were right all along.
Freedom is the ability to renounce gods, money, government, war, the media, control, authority, politics, guilt, restriction, inhibition, hierarchy, defense, fear, doubt, possession, harm, expectation, pressure, judgment, and entitlement. One that is not free may not do this without consequence. There is no system that anyone "must" or "ought to" participate in against their will. One does not volunteer taxes or tithes, except out of fear.
Living is freedom, compassion, expression, and love; it is now.
All are free to live as they will; the only wrong is to prevent another from doing the same.
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