The Western World has spent vast quantities of energy condemning physical slavery. Yet, they are among the greatest proponents of a mental variety of servitude. Mental sovereignty is a form of liberty found unacceptable among them. Through economic, social, and political means, they have developed stringent measures to cognitively enslave. Those brave enough to step outside of their forced imprisonment are silenced or punished; these are our philosophers and revolutionaries, our Kirks and Galileos.
Herd-people are the slavers. They fear individuals for their unpredictability; they envy their intelligence and creative spark. Anything outside of the herd is deemed a risk and is dealt with appropriately, often violently. This is because the herd-people are bonded by ideological and physical sameness. They wear identical uniforms and regurgitate the proper mantras and slogans to signal their status to the herd. These are the vain and illogical phrases of Black Lives Matter and feminism; the black costumes of antifa; the brown shirts of socialists; and the septum piercings of the feminists.
Employment and school exemplify such co-opted social hierarchies that demand habitual compliance, submission, and demonstration of ability and loyalty according to group edict. It can be something as simple as displaying a black box on their social media page or including pronouns at the bottom of their emails. Or it could be something far more sinister, such as the weaponization of Human Resources departments to punish men for alleged sexual harassment.
Various tactics are employed to ensure the individual has as few cognitive resources as possible. Instead of thinking deeply about philosophy or society, his daily mental energy is spent adapting to fractured deadlines, arbitrary pacing, and restricted autonomy. His mind is not and cannot be devoted to more important matters, because his social hierarchy demands too much of him. His finite energy has been parasitized, and at the end of the day, he is no better off than when he had awoken. By the time he retires for bed, he finds himself entrenched further into their framework, not his own. Freedom becomes less likely as the cell door closes, blotting out the hallway light.
Acquiescence to another's framework allows that person or group to restructure your own reality through the rewiring of psychology. This is done through cognitive fixation. Employers or professors possess tremendous power to disrupt someone's cognitive focus away from self-development or spirituality to whatever subject they deem necessary, such as feminism, racism, or the next quarterly. A person naturally invests energy and time in these topics so that he may more easily excel and survive in that political climate, whether in school or at work. By doing so, however, he depletes his own energy and embarks on a course entirely alien to his values. He betrays himself.
Society has become aggressively naked in its monopolization of our energy and time. Employers expect you to work increasingly long hours, including commute (even though remote work is practical in many cases). Education—both higher and lower—requires extensive time studying topics that have little to do with a person's interests. Worse, herd mentality is instilled in the youth through the study of socially pernicious concepts like feminism. Once a person's mind has been colonized to the point that they begin to identify with the group that has indoctrinated them—a form of social Stockholm syndrome—they sacrifice their hope of becoming an individual. Individuality is a trait that must be sharpened with use. However, most are dulled by the unimportant vagaries of groupthink.
As cognitive energy is spent trying to maintain status within the hierarchy, such as thinking and worrying about project deadlines, the individual has little left over for himself. His singular pursuits are left to rust. What energy he has left over is spent trying to recuperate. Such recuperation is only necessary because he feels—but does not express—the unnatural aspect of submitting oneself to others. He is meant to be free. His happiness and personal enrichment depend upon such liberation. His spirit has been besieged by the spiritless. Yet his gate remains open. He offers no defense. He easily submits, turning his story from one of honorable resistance to one of cowardly surrender.
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