Freedom Begins With You

  

A good thing that has emerged during this time of festering tyranny is the awakening of growing numbers of people to the greater truths of freedom.  Hard times tend to make good men, but unlike in times past, we now have a global information network, the broader effects of which I suspect were something which Theye failed to take into account.  Of late Theye have been attempting to bring the public forum of information exchange under greater control through cancel culture and other measures.  The good news is that thus far Theye have been mostly failing, despite their ever more seemingly frantic efforts to silence dissent and defiance.

Opinions regarding the quality of humanity's future vary widely from the pollyanna to the apocalyptic.  Those on the more naively optimistic end speak often of their faith that liberty and good shall ultimately triumph.  I share the hope of it, but insofar as the faith bit...

I have no such faith, nor do I need it. 

All I require is my drive to defy Themme in all the ways I am able, which I do daily. I publish, opinionize, analyze, speak out against tyranny; I disseminate everything for which Theye hold dread apprehension at the possibility of those things taking hold in the minds of the vulgar masses, and for which they would see me and other clarions brought to silence.  I exercise my rights with conviction and frequency, doing so blatantly that all may see, regardless whether they understand or agree.

The ultimate outcome doesn't matter so much to me, as does the act of defying the evil that gallops roughshod and so freely across the planet.  I remain intolerant of the intolerable, the tautology being sufficient justification in itself for all I do pursuant the goal of thwarting Themme at every available turn.

I'm slowly getting old and will be short of this world soon enough. But so long as I remain, I will rise to face the tyrant and command him to beg off. 

The Tyrant cannot buy me, nor can he intimidate me.  He can only bring me to physical ruin via the violence he brings, which is perforce a temporary condition, thereby annulling its power over me. By these virtues am I more powerful than Themme, despite all their money, armies, economic might, and the deeply neurotic avarice that seems to drive every action they take. Theye pale weakly compared with myself and all like me whose hearts are true to what is right and good between men. 

Removing oneself from concern for the ultimate result of his endeavors leads him to a mental state which Theye fear, for such men cannot be overcome by any means. This is the warrior mind, and it is the direct path to freedom. 

I am, by virtue of my choices, invincible and free.  By the same means have all the great and defiant men acquitted themselves most nobly.  By the same means do people defeat themselves and relegate themselves to servitude as slave to others.  These choices are always ours to make, this way or that.

Anyone is capable of deciding for themselves to be free.  That means you.  All it takes is the determination to be indomitable, and an understanding of what it means to become so.  One key is to become unconcerned with victory or defeat, and to press on regardless of the perceived prospects.

Think on these words as to what you might aspire - invincible, indomitable, unconquerable, unbeatable, unassailable, invulnerable, impregnable, staunch, ruthless, indefatigable, intransigent,  uncompromising, inflexible, unbending, resolute, obdurate, unwavering, unyielding, unshakeable, insurmountable, unpersuadable, unaccommodating, uncooperative, stubborn, obstinate, single-minded, iron-willed, diehard, unrelenting, immutable, immovable, firm, steadfast, inveterate, adamant, determined, tenacious.

Unlike the qualities that are celebrated and ever increasingly demanded by lesser men, and which are indeed hallmarks of the Weakman, the Freeman exalts in the power of resting beyond the reach of the cancerous values that his inferiors hold so dear, and which they would force upon him, were they able.

Know that there resides within yourself great power such that the Tyrant cannot overcome you, if you choose to assert it with unbending intent.  It is a simple thing to choose, but that does not mean it is easy.  Courage is a cornerstone, and it is not a characteristic that one either has, or doesn't.  It cannot be bought or otherwise obtained, but is given rise as the result of individual choice.  The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand precisely because it is a choice that one makes, rather than being a goal to be chased.  One need only choose it, and it shall be.  Mind is the only obstacle standing between you and true freedom.  

Courage and understanding are the ways of the Freeman.  Choose one, gain the other, and be true to both.  

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.

The Seemingly Absurd Common Response To The Ridiculous Pandemic Narrative

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Today I am noting large numbers of people who wonder why so many others have bought into the transparently absurd narrative of this so-called "pandemic" of the SARS Cov-2 virus. I believe there is a very good and clear cause underpinning it.

The bottom line insofar as the reasons for participation in such absurdities is comfort. All people chase comfort, there being no exceptions. Comfort may be manifested in the particulars differently between individuals, at times widely so. But at the bottom of it all lies a state of being to which people strongly wish to attach themselves, which we may call "comfort". The alcoholic finds comfort in his bottles, the heroin addict in being dissociated from gruesome reality. There's the CEO who, having to navigate the stresses of responsibility for so many lives, escapes on Saturday nights when he gives himself over to the girl with the whip and rubber clothing.

There is not a single human being on this planet who does not chase comfort in some form. It is part and parcel of what we are as living beings. When the stresses of life overwhelm, people will accept almost any proposition that promises to relieve their individual burdens, which is the comfort they seek. And so here we are, two years into raving, transparent lunacy with people having been stupefyingly compliant to the most obviously idiotic governmental edicts, ostensibly aimed at protecting the "public health".

Perhaps the decades of ever mounting stresses of daily living turned out as the glad happenstance for the political class in that those conditions gradually reduced the general population to such a state of mental degradation that they became susceptible to tipping point conditions. The added element of an intentionally released pathogen was all that would be needed to induce such dread that the people would become readily pliable in terms of their will to obey any order issued, no matter how transparently senseless. Then again, in hindsight it seems even possible that these life-wracking stresses may not have been coincidence at all - who can say for certain? Regardless of intentions, once the tipping point is reached, a carrot can be presented - promising relief from those negative conditions in the form of a single, simple and common goal, which would constitute the comfort element to which people would naturally and eagerly flock. Even if all circumstances were "innocent", the astute political opportunist will quickly see the possibilities therein and adapt himself to take the fullest advantage of a chance to further cultivate his position and power. He detects the weakness of the people and employs their mounting desire for comfort against them.

Having been driven in many cases to near frenzy, the comforting elements are introduced in the most simplistic terms. Wear this mask; keep that distance; take this drug; have that booster. Do as you are told and all will be well. The great leaders, the experts, tell you what to do, absolving you of all responsibility to think for yourself and, perhaps most importantly, relieving you of the stresses of uncertainty... Only, it is all lies. But what does that matter when you have been offered the option of believing that which leads you to relative ease? Most people are going to grab it and hold on like grim death. And so we see it coming to pass daily before our eyes.

We see the tangent symptoms of this everywhere now, what with the deepening divisions that are developing between those who, for example, take the so-called "vaccines" and those who decline them. The propagandizing of "government", aided and abetted by the large broadcast news outlets is leading to ever intensifying hostilities of one group against another, leading huge subpopulations not only to come to agreement with "state" proposals to force the administration of unwanted drugs upon the rest, but to an ever growing demand by some that it be made so.

If this doesn't reek and smack of a Hegelian dialectic, what does?

The clever charlatan always plays on people's hunt for comfort. Hit the right nerve and success is all but guaranteed. That is how predictable the human animal is in such respects. Find their heart's desire, hold it out to them, and they will murder their own children for the sake of attaining it while offering all righteous rationalizations for having done so.

Beware of your own desires, the weaknesses to which they can give rise, and always be alert to the ways in which others might try to turn them against you.

Be well, and until next time please accept my best wishes.