The Average Man is Servile
You’re not free. You’ve accepted it. You deserve it.
Freedom is our most precious asset. Look, If you do something very bad, like killing someone, we will come and take it away from you. We don’t want your money or your dog, but your liberty. We’ve chosen it as a punishment for a simple reason: You care more about freedom than anything.
“Freedom” is organized in layers. Higher levels are low prioritized deprivation like no coffee in the morning. Lower layers are more concerning ones.
The lowest level is thought. You can remove freedom of control over one’s own body, it’s easy, but penetrating the mind is not.
Imagination is all you have left when everything else is taken away from you. Some found a scaffold there to not sink into madness. Some prisoners that underwent inhumane treatment during the second world war pictured a parallel world. It was a way for them to find a little bit of freedom in this hell.
Freedom is so important! So why don’t people want it?
Little by Little
I don’t know where you come from, but I assume you’re rather free. Free to have electronic devices with internet connection so that you can read articles on Medium.
Here is the problem; You were born, you grew up, you learned what freedom wasn’t, but not what it is. You grew in a bubble lulled by morals and rules you’ve never questioned.
Dealing with rules is ok as long as they are not stupid.
I can tell you to take off your shoes before entering, so as not to dirty my house. Then, I can distill 2 or 3 more understandable rules before a stupid one you will follow as others. Please, can you sit only on this chair and not on the sofa?
I can continue like this. Some useful rules, one or two stupid ones. More useful rules, another stupid one.
Prince Mithridate swallowed a little bit of poison every morning to accustom his body. It saved him from cyanide poisoning, which was common at the time.
Like Mithridate, you have been taught to swallow to the point of not finding the venom of servitude bitter.
Liberty Is Gone
Subjugated, you fall suddenly into forgetfulness of freedom. You’re asleep, so that impossible to wake you up. You haven’t lost liberty. You won servitude.
People better like suffering. They don’t have the strength to desire this precious asset whose loss we cannot bear, because they no longer know its flavor.
Nostalgia of a happy past life with the hope of an identical future one is the obstacle. It prevents you from fighting the battle for fear of losing everything.
Future is threatening because we don’t know what to expect. On the other hand, the past is like a lovely mother who keeps us in his arms close to our best memories. But sometimes, you have to rush out of his arms and tell here: “F*ck you mom, I’m a big boy now!”
It is all the more difficult since everything is done to make you understand that fighting will not bring you anything.
We will give you games and little moments of freedom. Not too much. We don’t want you to get a taste of it. We want you to create excuses that will dissuade you from leaving servitude.
We will give you overviews of how dissidents end up. Jail? Torture? Come one, we’re civilized people. Labels, morals, and false virtue will take charge of them.
Wake Up
Step by step, you have been gently lulled to sleep, and discouraged from waking up.
Miraculously, some of us, who have not really tasted freedom, started to chase it. If you’re reading this, you’re probably one of them.
I know what it is to fight battles. Sometimes it’s tiring. But the few people who come to stand up when no one else does. These people. They are those who make history.
And by history, I don’t mean History. You’re not Martin Luther King, Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela. You don’t want to change the world, you want to change your world.
Let’s get independent. Independence is all we need to get free. Free from anyone and everything.
“Expect applause only from yourself. The noblest lives and the noblest dies who makes and follows his own laws. This ability to have his inner lawgiver and to fix himself to it. Not to live in the ideas of others.” — Richard Francis Burton
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