Do Not Read This, pt. 19

(alright, here is the last installment of this controlled demolition. if all has gone well, you’ve had, like me, your ass kicked off, punted through the goalposts between your ears and handed back to you. if not, read it all again until you get it. at the core, it is actually really simple, really clear, and totally obvious. it is only the fog in our minds that creates the illusion that we can’t see (and know) what’s out there.

seriously. read it all again. took me 3 or 4 times before the fog lifted.)

The Fear of Freedom

I stated near the beginning of the book that the conclusions and beliefs to be presented are the essence of simplicity and highly visible— and so they are. Literally every scrap of demonstrated knowledge is via the principles of epistemology. The principles of language use are a matter of elementary logic in reference to purpose and requirements to achieve the purpose. Categorical identity is an illusion easily exposed. Do you know anyone who would argue that persons of the same hair color, skin color, gender, or any other similarity are merely duplicate units without individual identity? The concept of “infinite entities” upon which the official socio-economic system is dependent is a fallacy that is also easily exposed. Yet nearly all subscribe to these anti-reality beliefs and cling to them with total dedication.

Indeed, we must conclude that such dedication to contradiction must necessarily be derived from a powerful and controlling emotion. What is it? What is excluded by the beliefs? Answer: individualism and freedom. Herein lies the answer. Fear of freedom is the dominant emotion.

If one listens to the claims, one is led to the conclusion that freedom is the most cherished value of all individuals. However, if one listens to the words that are alleged to express this “freedom” and looks to the actions as well, one is led to a far different conclusion. Rather than freedom being the highest value sought by most, it is their deepest and most abiding fear. So much so that they can’t even envision it.

(let me help you envision your fear of freedom (and also fear of your fellow man) by taking your through a quick and simple exercise:

imagine that right now, at this very moment in time, that all police and all soldiers suddenly disappeared from the face of the earth. this means no courts, the prisons all open wide, no 911, no country borders, no national guard, no jets getting scrambled by Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, none of that shit. how do you feel?

right now you are probably assembling some story called “all hell would break loose!” and you wouldn’t be alone imagining some scenario like those “The Purge” movies. that movie, and many, many others involving cops and soldiers are written and produced precisely to keep that fear within you alive. because without that fear, you are much less likely to allow yourself to be controlled and forcibly fleeced to pay for that control.

what this means is that you live your life like a chickenshit bully asshole. you, like nearly everyone alive today, think you are, at least generally, a “good” person— someone who is able to live at peace with themselves carrying a “clear conscience”. what’s more, and this is really going to hurt (unless you are so far gone as to be completely fkg stone-headed thick), is that this makes you a petty, foolish, unconsciously cruel and ridiculous human being. you can’t help it. that fear is just going to make you be that way. you think you are “cool”? what is “cool” but some asshole who thinks they are some kind of badass to cover over their fearful chickenshit heart. gangs, hells’ angels, freemasons, politicians, big money bankers, cops and soldiers, (and many many more) deep down, you’re all nothing but a bunch of heartless chickenshits playing “big boy”. this is why life is a bitch for everybody most of the time. you get out there in the world and people are out of control with painful emotion simmering underneath their “together” exterior but wind up just bungling into each other and screw each other over as a matter of course. corporate culture (hey, we are a "team”! like sports! we are not working, we are playing! here, have some of our solutions!) is a great example of how bully power battles are exalted, admired and glorified as a sound way of life. trash like “Game of Thrones” is a fine example of this. yeah, it may be set in old times “kings and queens” crap but the power dynamics are exactly the same.

even those who think they are really, really “nice”, actually go overboard taking on militant levels of appearances of “nice”. the petty tyrant underneath the “gentle” and “kind” exterior comes out the second you start preaching about “justice” and whining about “mistreatment” and complaining about “who is in power” and trying force your values on other people, telling them what they can and can’t say, think or do. it’s all part and parcel of the god concept— we live by what we “ought to be” and disregard what we really are. everybody is nice sometimes and everybody is a jerk sometimes. this is absolutely 100% unavoidable. it’s okay to just relax about this fact and cut yourself (and the other person) some slack. to be human is to be fallible.

…end of rant).

Where and when the fear of freedom began is lost in historical antiquity. There is no known record of any group of individuals living in a social circumstance of freedom. Perhaps it all began with the origin of the thinking individual whose desires and fears far outweighed capacities to satisfactorily handle them. The individual invented an invincible god (or gods) to compensate for inadequacies. Ironically, the psychological “savior” was self-defeating in that it decreased necessary self-reliance and set the mental environment for a condition of rule; a condition of inevitable intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts certain to exacerbate the very fears and problems that initially prompted the mental invention.

Whatever the time and reason for the abandonment of self to a “ruling mental invention”, the psychology was passed from generation to generation. In this day, it is clearly evidenced in formal religion and in every. present anti-social governmental structure. We are all born into this anti-freedom environment. In this circumstance, it is a matter of individual choice whether to blindly and passively accept the anti-freedom philosophy and anti-self psychology, or to consider the “unthinkable”.

It is highly unlikely that there will be any mass movement into the realm of actual freedom. Most will go on pretending as they have been programmed to do. The pretense is a substantial barrier, for there is no greater obstruction to freedom than the illusion of it.

The programmed and accepted mode of thought itself tends to discourage inquiry and understanding. If one attempts to grasp the whole and find instant and total solution for all the violent behavior throughout the world, one is overwhelmed by the vastness of it. When the mind seeks a sense of order, it is thrown into disorder by trying to envision an instant and universal solution. It can’t be done. Solution lies in self: self recognition and self-determination via the conscious mind and reality.

Although one may not “save the world”, neither does one have to accept the self-condemning and debilitating beliefs that are the accepted “norm”. As stressed throughout this book, the real is self and self is the focus of reality. Universal plan and individualism are diametrically opposed and can neither be merged in the mind nor practiced outside of the mind. Looking for and demanding a universal plan before advocating freedom is a contradiction. The goal to be achieved is the psychology of freedom. The rewards of a free mind will follow.

As shown above, the truth is highly visible and extremely simple. Indeed, the whole thing can be stated in one sentence: It all comes down to entity identity via limitation and difference and recognition of the real. That’s it. When this elementary criteria is ignored and the mind presumes to conclude upon “infinite entities”, the mind is divided against itself and everything is mentally turned upside down, from front to back, and violent chaos ensues.

It is unpleasant to be encompassed by the psychological and physical manifestations this insanity, but it is a thousand times worse to be mentally a part of it; to have ones’ own mind divided against itself and unknowingly manipulated by emotional dictates of the god concept and illusory objective standards of judgment of self and others.

It doesn’t have to be. It’s your choice. It’s your life. Who is living it?

(feel free to copy these and spread them far and wide. the guy who wrote them is long dead and anyway, he gave his permission. would have loved to meet him.

okay, off you go then. live real if you can. it’s a worthy pursuit. i nearly did it.

Edgar Allen Poe, Winter 2025)