The case for independence

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Don’t start a new religion as a martyr, don’t found a new organisation as an eventual tyrant. You can choose not to be enslaved as a member of a group, an employee paying obeisance to a company, a patriot close-minded for only your tribe. No fear or favour required.

No need to immerse in inertia through learned helplessness, carry on your entire life by supposedly inexorable social momentum. Remember that your insignificant drop in the ocean nevertheless carries the full import of one, especially when you are truly, wholly ocean.

You don’t need to inherit the mantle of sheeple, deluding your free will to the yoke of subjective justice, arbitrary licence, ostentatious formality, vaporous status, and non-lasting permanence. This is why pursuit of endless money is virtual, not virtuous, and hoarding the material to indulge with great waste, is not gratifying, but gratuitous. Your generations of private ownership soon have no lasting value when the future turns the next corner. So all you ‘have’ gets returned, recycled, and what you ‘are’ reincarnates, restarts.

Whom one is does not express exactly again, even for clones inspired by the first twins. The case for independence calls for inner discipline of honesty, clear and plain mind and voice and effort, not a mighty showoff of combined arms. Because from the first day, you already are.