Category: Inspiration

Nope. Perhaps you confused me for a spiritual passivist, or a deeply misguided young adult who has been indoctrinated into believing the government is my sugar daddy and the mainstream media, my conscience, my substitution for thought. Either way, you’re wrong.

I will own many things, and I will start by owning who I am. I will not fit into the boxes you wish to tick, to make sure I am a valuable asset to the cult of Twitter, a far left mouthpiece, or a far right prophet.

I am a mystic, and I go to the shooting range. I eat a vegan diet and I have a pet ball python I feed live rats to. I am immensely loving and simultaneously unafraid to be veracious, brutally honest, if needed. I make it a goal to live a life of compassion but I will draw a hard line of ferocious certainty if the situation requires such.

You want a painfully placid soul that has no concept of multidimensionality.

The algorithm that is our society loves a simple mind that has given up its autonomous right to question, to expand, a human built to serve as a walking echo chamber, reciting everything the mob tells them to say, their emotions existing as a fuze for whatever distraction serves the purpose of eliminating true research, true thought, true inquiry.

I will own many things and I will be happy.

I will own who I am. I will own land, a farm, and I will grow whatever the hell I want to feed my precious body, and to provide for those that I love. I will have a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL, I will ride my motorcycle on the weekends, and I will be scared of spiders. I will have a moon-bounce in my backyard for the days I want to relive childhood, and a luxurious glass office upstairs for when I am to focus on my investment strategies. I will sing and dance to Brittany Spears, “Hit me Baby One More Time”, and then relax to Piano Sonata No. 14 as the Arizona sun sets beyond the mountains. I will own whatever I want, and I will be whomever I want to be. The mob will call me a “hypocrite” and I will call myself free.

“You will own nothing, and you will be happy.” is a statement made by a cowardly group of adults who have realized it is too late. Humanity (not all of humanity but much more than they imagined) is awakening to its inherent power, and through this individuality, acceptance of self, and the bold ability to speak one’s truth lies an era of independence that wishes to be manifested. It is our collective authenticity, our audacity to break the mold, that scares them into reciting such blasphemy.
I will own whatever I want, and I will be happy.

Some timely reminders on that most valuable of commodities from the Optimism newsletter put out by Cecile Vowles.

Finish reading:

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once. ~Robert A. Heinlein

So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. – Molly Ivins

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness. – Robert Frost
Quote of the Day

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. – former US President Ronald Reagan

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. – Voltaire

It was easier to believe in the march of democracy in Gladstone’s day — in that high noon of Victorian optimism. We’re approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention — totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy’s enemies have refined their instruments of repression. Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower.

… there is a threat posed to human freedom by the enormous power of the modern state. History teaches the dangers of government that overreaches — political control taking precedence over free economic growth, secret police, mindless bureaucracy, all combining to stifle individual excellence and personal freedom. -former US President Ronald Reagan, 8th June 1982, in his speech to the British Parliament