Freedom Is Ours for the Taking
So take it!
Those of you who know me and my work know that I have long advocated for getting away from the grind. You know the grind I mean:
Paying rapt attention to the news cycle…
Gnashing your teeth at every latest outrage…
Spending every ‘spare’ moment airborne, tumbling down a conspiracy rabbit hole with no bottom…
All of those activities are understandable. All of them are, in a sense, worthy. There is technically nothing wrong with staying informed. Any outrage you feel is entirely justified. And most of the conspiracies are likely true and deserve to be exposed.
But here’s the thing…
Your outrage and attention aren’t likely to change much. The psychopaths will still be in power. Seventy-five percent of the population will still be highly programmable, and thus of no help to us. The outrages will still occur. And you will never be sure that you’ve found the bottom of the rabbit hole.
So why keep doing it?
Note that I am speaking here to the Remnant, not the masses. Plenty of others will keep living in that world. To whatever extent it serves a valuable purpose to keep paying attention, keep spreading the word, keep exposing the truth … there will still be plenty of people doing it.
Here’s what I am saying: Those efforts can spare YOU.
YOU can try something new.
You can criticize by creating, as Max Borders says.
You can focus on exit-and-build, as people like Sterlin Lujan and others are doing.
Or you can just try to build a beautiful life, as Jacqueline Rendell does and advocates.
And why shouldn’t you try to live a beautiful life? It’s your life. It’s the only one you get (at least in this particular body and form).
Your anger isn’t going to change what is going on. So why feel it all the time? We’ve been forced to give so much, against our will, to our psychotic overlords. Why give them that too? Why surrender our peace?
As Viktor Frankl said (drawing on experiences far more horrifying than anything we are currently going through), “Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Why give that away too?
I end up back in that place myself sometimes. The outrages creep past the walls I have put up to keep them out, and I feel my blood begin to boil. But the boiling blood does nothing to stop the outrages. So then I remind myself not to give that to the psychotic weirdos who think we are their cattle to be corralled, controlled, and culled at their whim.
There are other ways to fight back.
I am struck, for example, by the way the Amish do it: buying land and having babies. They were 50,000 or so back in 1970. Now they are close to 500,000 and growing every day. And they are really nice and friendly, even to us “English” folks.
All of this in spite of the outrages. Outrages they pay little attention to. And given that lefties and effete globalists tend not to breed—relying instead on indoctrination and psychological capture to grow their ranks—the Amish plan may work out very well for them in another 50 years.
You don’t have to be Amish, obviously. There are lots of different ways to “fight back.” And some of the best ones don’t involve fighting at all. They involve building.
This morning, while thinking about all this, I ran across a recommendation from Etienne de la Boetie2 for a #FreedomMusicFriday artist.
Grant Ellman is a young, talented musician. He plays multiple instruments, composes and arranges his music, and shoots his own videos. His lyrics are entirely freedom-oriented and voluntaryist. His style is heavily reggae- and funk-influenced.
Whether you like that style of music or not, you cannot deny that his lyrics are pretty spot on. (Language warning):
Freedom is ours for the taking yea-a-a
History now in the making, say
Fuck the government, el gobierno
They only exist to take your money and your dinero
(You scared tho?)
I ain’t scared of nothing, I ain’t moving I ain’t budging
Lotta population trusting but thru the bullshit we be cutting
Assess the situation if you want liberation
No disinformation pollute your clear mind
Some be caught up in the lies
Must be all that fluoride, nighty night!
Keepin ‘em mindless, spineless, fine wit it
I got no time for this!
Takin’ a trip into the future
No master no slave
Gonna be living without rulers
By any measure we maneuver
No jab and no booster
Cuz we rasta man recruiters
And we villain prosecutors ay!
Read the rest on the YouTube page and watch/listen here. Freedom really is yours for the taking. It won’t be all the freedom we want and deserve, but it’s a start.



..."And why shouldn’t you try to live a beautiful life?"...and that life is yours to create for yourself. In that, you can forget what the "experts" tell you is a beautiful life. No judgements, just living as you please.
So true. I saw the posts about Fauci but I have seen more than enough of that face.
What I watch in the news? what happens in my region and in the region my family in Belgium lives in. That news also contains updates on the terrible fires in Spain, France and Greece. I read about the earthquakes, first Venezuela, and now Japan, and pray for all the people involved - the ones who lost their lives, their families and friends, for all that lost their homes and all that was in it, the animals without humans and the humans who lost their animals...
I deleted all the doom thinkers from my Substack list and am deleting a few more soon. I only keep those that are uplifting, or give good advise. One can never have enough of those. I also deleted from my feed all the miracle doctors - both the pharma and the 'holistic' ones. Not everything works for everyone. There is usually more worthy advise in the comments (specially on the Tube) than there is in the articles or videos. And I deleted everything from my feed that is AI. If they cannot read their lines themselves they are not worth listening to. And for the rest I do my best to make my life worthy of living. We are going to start again with a small (4 or 5) choir next month. We do our best to meet up a few times a year with a group of friends. Not easy as most are busy people. I do my best to care for my elderly dog. And for my own, elderly self.