Escaping

Freeing ourselves is not easy. If it were, instantly tomorrow we would have a much better world with less fear, insecurity and hate. Instead what many of us do is find solace in things which bring us temporary relief from the pressure of the world to conform. We seek outlets where we can taste some freedom in lieu of becoming independent from the irrationality that our societies thrive on.

It's unfortunate that we operate this way because people would be so much more content if they felt less fearful. The vast majority of my life improvement came from undoing programming which was entirely irrational and not based on solid reasoning (I had dysphoria but was too fearful to allow myself the dignity of treating it seriously and so settled for half measures).The world is full of naturally occurring diversity which isn't allowed to thrive. People circumvent the existing system and get occassional breaths of fresh air but then go right back into prison until the next chance at furlow.

We have begun to undo oppressive structures that existed primarily to control the masses through conformity but ultimately this mission is first and foremost a personal one. For even if the jail cell bars are removed some will still be too fearful to escape.