Before 3 years ago, i was just like most people:
- Feeling that i had rights (kinda)
- worked hard (i still do-lol) to make a living
- worrying about taxes
- focused on some light at the end of the tunnel
- when i saw the state or city police or sheriff i would check for all my potential violations:
- seat-belt
- speed
- blinker on
- full stop
- wondered if my lights worked properly
- break tag or registration tag expired or not
- if they are following me
- etc...
- How the government is screwing us over:
- taxes
- sending our loved ones(troops) over to fight in wars that didn't have anything to do with our freedom here at home
- What kind of entitlement programs were being added or taken away
- How insurance was subsidized and made unaffordable
- How health care insurance was being nationalized and made unaffordable
- What else does the government screw us over on? ****reply below****
- Frustrated that every time i wished to start a business, i had to go through so many pieces of red tape (regulations, codes, required services, taxes, fees, inspections, time constraints, etc...) it made it near impossible to start and, in some cases, demotivated me to start in the first place. It just seemed that i couldn't do anything without asking permission to do it or applying go have access to get permission to do something. The interesting thing is, it wasn't always like that.
Yeah! i was that "person". Now, i am not trying to over exaggerate here. When i talk about the things that i would think of or do when i saw a police or sheriff, i don't mean that it was total panic. i am saying that i got this feeling. The one that makes you jolt into that mindset, even if just for a few seconds. i really hated that feeling. It was a conditional response from all those years of being conditioned. i know this doesn't happen to everyone. i am just saying.
i described above, what i think, is a social construct. We haven't really left our parents, at least transitioned into having new parents. We seem to be conditioned throughout our lives to obey and follow rules. Well, i get it, we need something to keep us from killing each other. However, as a man/woman, there are only three ways that one can commit a crime in universal law. To encumber onto someones land(body), to encumber onto someones property, and to commit fraud. That's it. Treat others as you would wish to be treated. This is how it was since man was created or evolved into the capacity to be social. Either way we only need our parents long enough to understand these principles and then we should be free.
Love thy fellow man. Respect thy fellow man. Help and assist thy fellow man. Compensate thy fellow man honestly and completely. Always stay in honor with thy fellow man.
i don't believe that being free means that you have to live in the middle of the forest off the grid. Additionally, i believe that most of our societal issues and problems stem from the fact that we are not aware of how to live truly free. Living in honor seems to be long lost. i know alot of you have said this, "everyone has a "ME" attitude", or "it's a "ME" first society we live in". Well if you have said this before, then you know what i mean.
Changing the world starts with ones self. One's mindset defines his/her actions, decisions, motivations, etc... So by changing one's status from Maxima to minima (link below) in mindset and actions, the world will start to change. i think for the better. What does anyone really want in life? To be left, the fuck, alone! To do as one wishes. To pursue "Life", Liberty, and "Happiness", and well made beer. We just all have to remember and live as described above and not to commit crimes. I think that is "it". That simple.