Breaking Out of Taker PrisonSuppose you find yourself in a psychiatric ward. Authentic power allows you to rise above the role you are playing - to understand that the doctors, judges, and police may have become cruel and vulgar people, and that some of the inmates in that hospital may be rather evolved beings in comparison. You might learn a great deal from them.
People ask me, "Do you work?"
If my work is scholarly or spiritual, or if my work does not put food on the table or cash in the bank, then it's "not REALLY work." I don't have a job, no --- Jobs are trouble for me because I lock horns with management. I know myself well enough by now. I am afraid I would get into serious trouble if I put myself in a position to be bullied - and I won't take it. It's best for society that I don't put myself into situations where I will cause much grief for the slave drivers and my fellow-slaves.
I got my degree in computer science from Rutgers University in New Jersey - that was in 2002.
A few weeks after the Bush League invaded Iraq in 2003, I took my car off the road, quit my job, applied for welfare, and allowed myself to become a broken machine ... In other words, I stopped restraining myself and just let myself go
down the tubes. No wonder jobs get outsourced to broken spirits around the globe. When one pool of labor gets too smart or "too big for its britches," the suits find a more whipped source of labor either by exporting the jobs or importing the people. Entire populations living on bad faith, telling themselves they have no choice.
Writing and researching on the Internet has kept me busy for several years where I was able to get more of that kind of WORK done without the time consuming commitment to a JOB.
I guess I cut my own path.
"A vocation like ours is not a 9 to 5 thing, Simon. You can't put a fence around a man's soul. We think and feel when we think and feel. We are the servants of our muse and we toil where she commands." -
Henry FoolI don't have much to lose if I speak my mind.
That's the irony: the less attached one is to the status quo, the more free one becomes. The more one has to lose, the more hoops there are to jump through, the more restrained and controlled one is.
Breaking out of prison can be risky --- some prisons are quite comfortable, after all.
It's not a crime to think about ways to escape.
You may escape from one section of Taker Prison only to find yourself in a deeper hole. Look at "welfare," social security (should be called social insecurity), or "the Dole:" still very much part of the system ... maybe even more so since one is subject to inspections and other standards.
They might make it intolerable for people so as to discourage people from using it. In the end, some of us have too much integrity to adapt to the work-force for too long. The ironic thing is that those with the least integrity thrive in the work force, and may even rise to positions of "authority" since they care so little about the people they crush into the ground. And then some have the chutzpah to question the integrity of those who refuse to respect the chain of command.
Most people just put up with it for the stupid reason that "that's just the way it is" or they have seen people crash and burn without the security of "employment."
If more and more people thought like me ... yes, the entire social order would collapse tomorrow morning.