How accurately do you view the world around you? Do you really think of yourself as “free”? Incase you have been brainwashed and can not see clearly, please allow me to give a quick description of the box you live in.
Although you are a human being and no different than the other 6.5 billion other human beings born on Earth, it does not make you or anyone else a natural citizen of the planet Earth. There is nowhere on this planet where one can pledge such an allegiance, instead you must choose to align yourself with one of the already predefined warring nations which have divided the planet, resources, and people, all established long before your arrival on the planet, and continued on by the barely conscious daily repetitions of the current collective human race.
By the forced aligning with a nation, your status as a human being has been rescinded, and your nation of choice now determines your new label, loyalties, laws and customs that you live by. The nation has control over your actions, control over how you raise your children, and control over what lessons your children are taught.
Because the nations are still at war, the predefined boundaries are subject to change without notification and crossing borders is not permitted and requires authorization. Depending on the nation you chose, you may not even have the option of leaving. If you are permitted to leave, requests for a new allegiance may not be readily accepted or make take years to process; a last resort may be to tresspass onto enemy soil. Your nation may call upon you to serve in the military and force you to go out and kill other beings in a rival nation whether you think it is just or not. The collective efforts for war and defense by the nations have always far exceed any effort for providing peace within or outside their boundaries.
Regardless of the nation you selected, the rules are still “survival of the fittest”, for survival is not guaranteed within most nations. The environment of your habitat plays a key role; it may facilitate, but more often than not, handicap your efforts. Most environments can not even provide basic necessities.
The means by which survival could be granted comes by competition and trade for currency. Since education is not guaranteed or lacking in substance, your skill sets might prove to be at a disadvantage. If you do not have the necessary skills to compete and/or necessary items for trade to ensure your survival, you may find yourself operating outside of the rules of the nation for currency but at the risk of imprisonment. There are also those who take advantage by choosing to operate outside of the rules of the nation to increase their odds and comfort in their survival regardless of the impact it may have on others and/or the environment. It is not uncommon to even see leaders and nations operating outside of their own rules.
For those fortunate enough to be of the fittest, capable of mastering the techniques for acquiring currency and items legitimately, they are rewarded by taxation by their nations. Based on the rules, since the majority of the planet lives in poverty, that means that the majority of the planet is barely fit enough for survival. If you personally conclude that the circumstances are beyond your tolerance levels and decide for aide to self-terminate, you will find that that too is a violation of the rules of the nation. You are born a prisoner and a slave. The total amount of world wide human suffering is absolute and inescapable.
It's Stockholm syndrome on a planetary scale. If you really think about it, you have been stripped of your natural born rights, trapped in one hostile nation or the other, complete with borders, armed militias, forced slave labor and taxation. Approximately 360,000 new people are born into this bondage every day. And after 50,000 years into human development, we behave no better than cavemen (maybe even worse).
The above items are just some of the things that make up the walls of your box.
There is always a better way to ensure for human survival, it merely requires that it be sought out and implemented. First and foremost, it requires that you shake off the brainwashing and acknowledge the truth right before your eyes, felt in your heart, and analyzed by your very adaptive brain. You are a Human being and citizen of the planet Earth. Your allegiances should be pledged to this entire planet and all her inhabitants. This entire planet is your home, everyone is family, and no borders should divide her peoples or change your natural born rights. All her resources belong to each and every one of us and must be shared equally and cared after. If we all claimed this loyalty, then it would no longer be survival of the fittest. It would be the responsibility and barely conscious daily repetitions of the collective human race to communicate, cooperate, organize, share, and care after one another and the planet. Only then could you ever begin to consider yourself as “free”.
Like they like to say, “give me liberty or give me death”. Since we prefer to remain hostages and slaves, I guess we layed down and died inside of ourselves a long time ago.
We have entered into the 21st century, hopefully some of us still have life and refuse to enter the boxes conveniently left open for us. Open your eyes, clear your brains, and act out.
