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...at least that is what most people have reduced independence to.This is a reduction of already reducing independence to “to each his own” and to “freedom”.
Independence, independent and individual have been discussed many times as being one and the same, but which do not optimally mean what most people think those words mean.
Freedom has been discussed many times. It is another one of those words, that if you ask 100 people what freedom means, you're going to get 150 definitions.
So as you can see, in times such as these, we live lives as a bunch of people who use the same words, but we have difference definitions and meanings for those words.
Three Hots & A Cot
We've heard about people who have been in prison, that get out and then intentionally try to get back into prison because in prison you are guaranteed “three hots and a cot”.You are guaranteed food, shelter, clothing and no bills.
To them, this is freedom and security. They are not homeless or hungry.
If we are honest, most of us are living life for the same reasons – to secure food, shelter, clothing and to be able to pay bills.
This is the first and main thing we are after in order to feel independent, secure and free.
...And/or we will remain in a relationship in order to get the basic bases covered of at least sharing the expenses of food, shelter, clothing, utilities and other bills.
...And/or we go into the military because that's a job most people can easily get and get guaranteed raises and it's hard to get fired from. Most people settle for the military as one step away from prison and as better than a corporate job or small business self-employment.The military is also an origin of “three hots and a cot,” a later form of room and board.
You Are A Fake If...
...you don't keep it real...with yourself.We might as well admit, we are trained, from birth to be slaves, despite rhetoric to the contrary, the net result of our behaviors in times like these, is slavery.
Furthermore, the enormous amount of people who are racists are forced and coerced into enslavement as children, then choose, daily, for the rest of their lives to remain in slavery.
You are enslaved by and become slaves of logic that in no ways allows you to be free, secure, independent or an individual.
Life and existence is about so much more than what we have been seduced to reduce it to. But when we listen to our own thoughts, we know we have debased independence, freedom, security and individuality on having food, shelter, clothing, utilities paid for, taxes paid for, other expenses paid for, wants paid for. Otherwise, take away our ability to pay for any one of these and we no longer feel free, secure, happy or celebratory of independence, unless we are able to temporarily briefly frequently partition reality and illusion, as frequently daily required when self needs to be admired.
Come on now! Think about the events of the past 2-3 years. Do you really think you have independence?
Answer that and it becomes redundant to consider the list of inherent rights as points to double-check logic.
Hell! We're not even free from, secure in or have independence of race as an excuse for rudeness and all other forms of deplorable despicable behaviors. Most people need race, ethnicity or country citizenry to boost their otherwise low self-esteem.
Furthermore, going back to the previous message, how can all humans come from one origin in Africa, and then hundreds of thousands of years later, many groups of humans claim they no longer have one-drop of African blood or one-sixteenth or one-eighth or one-fourth or one-half or one hundred percent.
Where did all this new blood come from?
Go ahead and use your academies to explain it.
Go ahead and use science.
Use your religion.
Use your government.
Use your news programs and companies.
Use whatever source of truth you rely on and make it make sense to you. And by doing so, prove to yourself you are truly in slavery to crazy.
Thank God for independence to make it all go away.
For independence, healthy knowledge of self not required. Neither is the realization of inherent rights, even as we claim to have other rights and giving those other rights more priority than inherent rights that we don't have.
On The Third Hand
There are parents, other caregivers and spouses who provide food, shelter, clothing and bill payment for us for several years, thus providing the exact same things upon which we give priority to as a basis of independence. Then, we, as recipients of the foundation for independence, disregard that foundation because we say the person did this or that or didn't do this or that. Whether or not those things are true, we still have the basis of independence that we ourselves use as the meaning of independence. Thus then, we should be able to use that basis of independence and move on and build on it and not use the other stuff, however important or heinous, as an excuse to not bear healthy fruit.This is because we ourselves, in prioritizing a few basic needs at the expense of many others, do not come down on ourselves as hard as we do on others, who we feel are responsible or had responsibility for providing for us more than they did to give us everything we need. Yet we neglect those very things for self, as we make more and more decisions on our own and consider ourselves grown. Come on now, come back around to full circle thinking. We cannot give what we ourselves didn't get or what we don't have the ability to give or give something that is a lesser priority than something else we think needs giving. Often it takes understanding the causes and effects of the pluses and minuses in others in order to understand the causes and effects of the sufficiencies and deficiencies in self. Simply put, we have to go beyond the first cause we suspect or detect. Most of have, in our imagination, the ideal situation in relationships. Anything short of that and we feel cheated, even though neither ourselves or the people we are in relationship, started out whole. Imagination might be something to shoot for, but not as the only measuring stick. Who can measure up to the ideal? Who can measure up to the ideal?A better measuring stick is how much we are truthful with self. If we can't tell the truth to ourselves in the mirror or in private places where it's just us, then not only should we not expect it from elsewhere, but our inability to tell the truth to self, diminishes our ability o discern truth outside of self. This then, explains a whole lot of what's going on with a lot of people who are okay with broken logic.
We are definitely less to someone than they expect us to be. Thus, we know we expect forgiveness, and should, in many instances, forgive others for what we consider shortcomings or that makes us feel shortchanged.
Thus, then, in societies who use suboptimal theory as their context for their worldview, asili, definitions and meanings, many terms for which we have endearment, we should expect to be incorrect and lead us into many thoughts and behaviors that do the exact opposite of what we expect.
In this day and age, we know how much effort it takes to continuously secure the societal version of “independence”. It takes a lot of extra effort to provide more than than for others to which we have responsibility. And this is why personal growth is still at an all-time low as evidenced by what the masses still fall for using their independence.