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Good post. Yes, many of us are suffering from these blues on Valentines Day 2023. As Thomas Paine wrote about the desire for freedom is universal. His hopes for the American revolution have come to a screeching halt these days. But perhaps it isn't 100% dead and gone.

We have all just managed to survive, overcome and outgrow our educations. To real learning!

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I'm very similar to Ayn Rand and Michael Tsarion. The first is dead and the second nobody has heard of.

The problem of "society" isn't the State. It's that the State is welcomed. Before the State was the monarchy, the BOSS, the protector.

Children are crushed into joining a "Crowd" to make them feel better about themselves. It can be religious to a criminal gang. From Q to "whitehats". Any political party. Or a sports fans. It becomes "I'm with them" to "I am ONE of them".

You lose your SELF when you join. Joining and working with are not the same. People will flock from one group to another..."protection by numbers". Feel important. Membership has its privileges (American Express chose those words on purpose).

The 1960s TV series "The Prisoner" explains it all. Very deep philosophical and psychological treatise.

**When is the last time you used a dictionary to understand what a word actually means? I'll bet 99.9% haven't used a dictionary in 10+ years. People throw around words without knowing what they're talking about.

1 - Feeling = emotional. Thinking is NOT emotional. Thinking is the deconstruction of a theory to its hypothesis to understand its fundamentals. This does not use vague terms. Humans talk using vague terms.

Details are for building houses and electronics.

You are under the spell of a magician.

QUESTION: how can you NOT be fooled by the magicians magic act?

ANSWER: because you know how the trick WORKS in detail.

QUESTION: How can you NOT be fooled by all the "events happening" (pandemic, global warming, climate change, Ukraine, genders, rainbows, diversity, UFOs, Q, Whitehats, Hold The Line, etc)??

ANSWER: Because you know how your MIND works in detail as to why you are caught like a deer in the headlights to these "events".

I know people who are self proclaimed experts on everything and "feel" they don't need to understand how language programs the mind and how a personality from birth becomes molded to be an intelligent idiot or sheep (really the same thing).

It's your funeral.

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