And I dare not even breathe

Liberty, freedom, justice, practicality, righteousness, rights. To want liberty, to want freedom assumes we are oppressed, seeking some kind of escape. To rally for our continued liberty, to seek to protect our freedom implies forces allied to destroy those principles. But in our society one man cannot stand up and demand his freedom and　liberty from those that profess to hold his best wishes forefront in their minds. How can I trust a body of people to hold my own dreams, my hopes, my joys sacred? When they hold as their directive of action laws laid down by each successive generation, each a holder of different beliefs, shaped by sets of circumstances. Laws that uses ideas defined by people far from organic in their use of language.

How can you know freedom when structured law defines our emotional, mental and physical barriers? With the definment of institutions, the birth of countries, one born in a group is part of that group forever. I cannot stand up and proclaim myself sovereign from a force solely because I will always lack the power, eloquence and historical backing that any previously established government or group possess.

That is the attraction to the story of one man realizing he has his own life, his own freedom, his own definition of the rights owed to him. To stand up and proclaim I will not stand by and accept your definition of the world. I will not accept the fact that I cannot act as my own creator or destroyer. i will not accept the definition that man is a species that will always owe allegiance to his fellow man and must acknowledge that the logical progress of history is the proof of your right to shape his future. I will stand up and step outside the system, see the flow of reality from a perspective pf personal freedom rather than social freedom. i will hold my own unalienable rights and refuse to define them. I name my revolution selfish, for I cannot share any facet of it, parcel out any portion of the reality I see to you.

If there are those that exist in the vein of these thoughts, rise on your own feet, see your own existence. We may share many of the same characteristics, but you are an individual. Be not afraid to proclaim yourself alone, be not afraid to reject those who demand kinship on the basis of blood or land. Be brave to proclaim you see with eyes unclouded of influence, think with thoughts shot through with individual consciousness and shout with a voice clear of doubts or contradictions. For only when I can stand on the mountain top and see the way free of allegiances, free of gods and superstitions, free of barriers to the true existence of one`s individual will, will I say this is freedom and this is worth protecting at any cost.