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Chapter Thirteen
Reigning Supreme Among the Stars
The Human-Web
Many people use the human-web as a replacement for reality. That is, they attempt to replace objective reality with what other people think and say. They conform to the thoughts and wishes of other people rather than the facts of reality. Such people use the human-web to avoid self-responsibility. An individual is trapped in the human-web when he no longer makes independent decisions; he relies on the decisions of the group. That group might be his family, friends, coworkers, or other people.
One does not become entangled in this web all at once. Rather, it slowly encompasses one until one unpleasantly finds oneself enmeshed in it. Escaping from this web requires disciplined mental focus.
The best thing to do regarding the human-web is to avoid falling into this trap. How can one avoid the human-web? One can become conscious that it exists and make all of one's decisions using one's own consciousness—not other people's consciousness.
Liberation: Financial and Sexual
Everyone in the anticivilization—including its leaders—is chained to a narrow, impoverished, and boring life. Even the richest, most fulfilled Citizens of Earth are incredibly stunted if juxtaposed against Citizens of the Cosmos.
People are born, pass through childhood, age in adulthood, and then die. During their short life, everyone is caught in slave traps. Those traps are designed to keep humans chained to the anticivilization. Everyone in the anticivilization eventually loses the values of life and then dies. What an ugly, unnecessary tragedy.
But now, for the first time in history, conscious beings can escape their death traps. They can free themselves from the anticivilization's seemingly omnipresent grip. They can liberate themselves to discover financial and sexual freedom—guiltlessly, forever.
How does one achieve financial and sexual liberation? Does one have to adopt a new lifestyle, a new idea system, or a new religion? No. One does not have to radically alter his or her lifestyle to achieve financial and sexual liberation. One does, however, need to discover honest principled thinking.
Through principled thinking, one gains de facto power to liberate one's self from all anticivilization chains. For instance, one can use principled thinking to spot newly emerging trends and create goods or services to capitalize on those trends. Also, one can use principled thinking to grasp that sexual repression, which originates from church and state, is the tool the criminal mind uses to control and usurp productive citizens. With honest principled thinking, one quickly grasps the value of sex and rejects all sexual attacks ranging from "sex is dirty" to "sex is sinful."
Yes, principled thinking—i.e., reality-based abstract thinking—is the mechanism to escape anticivilization oppressions. It is the tool for achieving financial and sexual liberation.
Slavery versus Freedom
Man has been a slave for the last ten thousand years—ever since the beginning of prehistoric civilization. Man was a slave to the ancient leaders of prehistoric civilization. Then man was a slave to the parasitical-elite class of the anticivilization. With the discovery of Advanced Man, however, slavery will vanish from this planet—permanently.
The following table reveals the night-and-day difference between slavery and freedom.
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Slavery |
Freedom |
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Philosophic mode is Subjectivism |
Philosophic mode is Objectivism |
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Consistent application of Subjectivism requires intentional dishonesty |
Consistent application of Objectivism requires unyielding honesty |
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Political expression is Totalitarianism |
Political expression is Libertarianism |
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Medium of exchange is fiat money |
Medium of exchange is cybercash |
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Thrives before the rise of cyberspace |
Thrives after the rise of cyberspace |
Today, the question facing each person is, "Does one want to live in slavery or freedom?" The Local Group will eventually free everyone on planet Earth. But right now, one has the choice to live in bondage to criminal-minded leaders—or evolve into Advanced Man and leave the criminal mind behind forever.
Upon evolving into Advanced Man, one's mind transforms from a restricted thinking device to a super-powerful force capable of integrating all knowledge. One's newfound mental powers let one increasingly control existence to deliver ever-greater values for oneself and other people. Prosperity ensues.
Why will every adult initially resist total freedom? Because no adult knows what total freedom is like. No adult on earth knows what a world of complete self-responsibility and self-accountability is like. Moreover, everyone is "comfortable" with today's upside-down world in the sense that they already know what it is like.
Still, individuals will—one by one—begin breaking away from slavery to discover total freedom. Those risk-taking pioneers will blaze the path for others to follow. As others learn about the pioneers' success, they will scramble away from slavery somewhat like prehistoric man scrambled away from his animal mentality to discover consciousness.
Freedom is not Politically Correct
Today's fashionable trend in politics is political correctness. The essence of political correctness is the parasitical control of citizens by a few ruling elites. How is that control achieved? That control comes from fabricating arbitrary laws, assembling gun-backed bureaucracies, and hiring killers to enforce those arbitrary laws.
Such is the nature of political correctness. And as political correctness expands, citizens become bored, broke, unhealthy, unfulfilled, and then perish. Political correctness has nothing to do with reality, objective law, valid justice, individual rights, property rights, peace, prosperity, health, or happiness. It simply is a technique for some men to exercise parasitical control over other men.
The effects of political correctness are the same as the effects King George III had on colonial America: ever-increasing control over the lives of innocent, productive citizens. American citizens—lead by General George Washington—overthrew King George III's parasitical control. Will Americans overthrow the inherent evils of political correctness?
The most fundamental need of conscious beings is freedom to exercise their volitional consciousness. Human beings can exercise their volition without violating the individual rights of fellow citizens when they interact in a rational civilization—an Objectivist civilization. In order to survive and live forever, volitional conscious beings must be free to grow in character, knowledge, competence, productivity, prosperity, romantic love, and happiness. But political correctness puts gun-enforced limitations on the growth of every person. Sooner or later, everybody stagnates, gives up the will to live, and then dies. Today, these dynamics are totally unnecessary.
The only reason some people violate the rights and freedoms of other people is to garner unearned livelihoods. And, taking the next logical step, one realizes that the only reason people die today is so certain other people can survive via force and fraud—the force and fraud epitomized by the IRS, FDA, DEA, INS, SEC, EPA, FTC, FCC, OSHA. All of these are political tools that provide unearned power and wealth to politically correct people. Such people include career politicians, armed bureaucrats, many lawyers, life-appointed judges, tenured professors, media personalities, Liberal journalists, Establishment intellectuals, certain celebrities, political businesspeople, and welfare recipients.
In the Dark Ages, religious fraud ruled the world. But that fraud eventually collapsed. Today, political fraud rules the world. This fraud will also collapse. In its place will arise total freedom driven by laissez-faire capitalism. What ensures the collapse of political correctness and all other frauds? The Internet, World Wide Web, and Java-based technologies guarantee the disappearance of initiatory force, fraud, and the entire anticivilization.
In short, freedom and political correctness cannot coexist for very long. Today, political correctness exists by diminishing everyone's freedom. Tomorrow, via cyberspace, freedom will prevail as awakened citizens boot political correctness off planet Earth.
Crimes Against the Anticivilization
What are crimes against the anticivilization? They comprise any radical movement toward freedom. In essence, any breakthrough in physics, mathematics, astronomy, biology, technology, philosophy, politics, business, or finance that delivers freedom to individuals is a crime. Or, more generally, any action that brings conscious beings into a rational civilization—the Civilization of the Universe—is a crime. That is, a crime against the anticivilization and those who profit from it.
Throughout history, great souls who have worked to advance civilization—from Socrates to Jesus to Galileo to Harry Helmsley—have been convicted of crimes. In reality, such people never committed objective crimes. They were not guilty of undercutting objective law. None of these people violated individual or property rights. But, criminal-minded leaders who orchestrate the anticivilization sensed that those great souls would eventually expose and undermine the criminals' false power. Therefore, the criminal mind scrambled to conjure up subjective laws and bogus justice in order to eliminate threats to their destructive livelihoods.
Ironically, anyone who advances the objectively good—e.g., freedom, wealth, and immortality—in the anticivilization is committing a crime. That crime consists of undermining political agendas, forced privations, and irrationality. Those who work to advance the good while eliminating the bad are attacked, persecuted, imprisoned, or murdered. This is the anticivilization's survival mechanism.
Now, at the turn of the new millennium, two new dynamics are converging. What are these world-changing dynamics? They are (1) Objectivist philosophy and (2) the World Wide Web. Those two dynamics will eliminate the anticivilization.
The discoverer of Objectivism, Ayn Rand, knew that her philosophy would eventually banish irrationality from planet Earth. The discoverer of the World Wide Web, Timothy Berners-Lee, knew that his technology would eventually banish ignorance from planet Earth. Those individuals worked diligently to bring these two great values into existence. The anticivilization cannot survive very long in their presence.
Thus, the criminal mind, beginning in Washington DC and spanning outward, races to belittle and bury Ms. Rand's great work. The criminal mind also races to regulate and take control over Timothy Berners-Lee's great work. It senses or understands that these two discoveries are the beginning of the end for the anticivilization. And the criminal mind cannot exist in the Civilization of the Universe.
How tragic it is for the criminal mind that Objectivism and the World Wide Web arose together at the close of the twentieth century. As these two dynamics converge—as Objectivism and the Web integrate into one omnipotent dynamic—Citizens of Earth will witness the fall of the criminal mind and its anticivilization. On the other side of the coin, how beneficent it is for the business mind that Objectivism and the Web arose together at the end of the twentieth century. This marks the end of crimes against the anticivilization. Gone will be the days of making value production a criminal activity. Also gone will be the days when heroic individuals who advance society end up in jail or early death.
Ms. Rand and Mr. Berners-Lee committed the Ultimate Crime against the anticivilization. They released the dynamics necessary to vanish the anticivilization. Ms. Rand was constantly attacked for her great work. She still is attacked posthumously. Mr. Berners-Lee has yet to be attacked, as most people are still baffled by his great work; they do not grasp the full implications of his work. Fortunately, by the time people figure out the logical implications of his work, the anticivilization will be powerless to harm him or anyone else.
Freedom Must be Earned
The foremost value for human beings is freedom. This value provides humans with the opportunity to exercise their volitional consciousness. And volitional, conceptual consciousness is what separates human beings from all other life forms.
Throughout history, individuals have struggled for freedom. Many people have died for it. Why? People sensed or clearly understood that freedom is a necessary condition to live as a human being rather than as a slave.
A common misconception is that man is born free; perhaps that is true in a rational civilization. But in the anticivilization, men are not born free. Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence asserts that men are free. However, in the anticivilization they are not free. Essentially everyone is a slave to the ruling-elite class.
What does it take to be free? How can one achieve freedom for the rest of one's life? The key is value production. A person needs to competitively produce and voluntarily exchange values that other people want or need. And, a person needs to produce more values than he/she consumes. Once a person does this, he/she is free—financially, materially, physically, and psychologically.
Anything else is simply a pretense of freedom. It must be earned, paid for by the work of one's own mind and body. No one can give another person freedom any more than one person can give another person happiness. These self-made values arise from the totality of actions that span across a person's entire life. Beneficial actions beget freedom and happiness; harmful actions beget enslavement and sadness.
The default for earning freedom is being a slave to ruling elites—whether they are in government, religion, law, academe, or stagnant big businesses. Being a slave, however, goes against one's own best interest. It prevents one from fulfilling one's moral responsibility. That moral responsibility is to achieve happiness here on earth. Despite all rationalizations, a person cannot be permanently happy unless he or she is free—not partially free, but completely free.
What is the underlying reason why many people have not earned freedom? That reason is everyone's aversion to (1) consistent value production and (2) being totally accountable for their own words and deeds. In the anticivilization, people can and do survive—for a handful of decades—without consistently producing values and without being 100% responsible for their actions. But the price they pay for this "easy way out" is death—brutish, merciful, often cannibalistic death where Plato's elite class devours Citizens of Earth in ever-greater numbers.
Many people, if asked, would say they are free. But this is an illusion. If they ever try to consistently promulgate their own ideas, keep all the fruits of their own labor, spend their money only in ways they decide, do only the things they want to do, they would—they must—be stopped. Why must they be stopped? The anticivilization, that is why. The anticivilization, its rulers, agents of force, and dependents could not survive if even one person could do anything he or she wanted at anytime. This is because that free person would set a "bad example"; others in the anticivilization would want to emulate such a free spirit. And if individuals around the globe began acting as independent and free spirits, the anticivilization would crumble. It would be left behind like a bad dream.
So how can a person be free forever? A person can earn permanent freedom by continuously producing competitive values in cyberspace, then the forthcoming Civilization of the Universe. Operating in cyberspace brings one beyond the reach of the anticivilization, and continuous value production lets one produce more values than one consumes. What is the result? Freedom, now and forever.
Freedom as Self-Control
Freedom in the anticivilization means compromised freedom—i.e., partial freedom. But in actuality, freedom means complete freedom, the kind of freedom everyone enjoys in a rational civilization—an Objectivist civilization.
Freedom requires that one be free from external control. To be 100% free, a person cannot have any external authorities controlling his or her life. Of course from the anticivilization perspective, this is almost incomprehensible. The anticivilization could not exist if external authorities did not rule everyone.
If one did not have external authorities controlling one's life, who would control one's life? The answer is oneself. One would have to exert self-control in order to survive. And here is the key to survival in the forthcoming rational world. In an objective-law civilization, no one can force another person to do anything. The immediate implication of this is that one has to control one's own life to survive. One has to think and act for oneself. From the anticivilization perspective, this might seem frightening to some people. In reality, self-thought and self-guided action is completely natural. However, self-control is not easy or automatic.
Responsibility for one's life rests solely on oneself. Why? In an environment of total freedom, each individual perceives reality, performs integrated thinking, comes to conclusions and judgments, and acts according to one's thoughts. Force and manipulation play no role in such a person's thoughts and actions. Each person is a sovereign being guided by the rational use of his or her own mind.
Resistance to this mode of survival is formidable, especially to those who have long ago relinquished control over their own lives. And, making the conversion from being controlled by external authorities—e.g., spouse, parents, friends, teachers, politicians, or theologians—is difficult. Taking total control over one's life requires focused thought and consistent effort. Yet it can be done; it has to be done if one wants to experience abiding happiness. Unbeknownst to many people is the unique experience that occurs upon taking complete control over one's life. What is that unique experience?
When a person makes the transition from being controlled by external authorities to controlling one's own life, something unexpected occurs. At first, one might feel that life is too hard, too demanding. One might question the whole process of taking control over one's life. But those who are committed to being the captain of their own ship—taking fate into their own hands—continue their quest. These people will take an exciting ride to profound fulfillment. Upon emasculating all false authorities while dumping one's personal irrationality, one's mind jumps to life somewhat like the grand finale of a fireworks display. One discovers brand-new dimensions of life previously unknown to oneself—dimensions of value production, prosperity, romance, happiness, and inner fulfillment. Such dimensions remain hidden from life while one is under the spell of illusory authorities.
Growing into control feels natural. This is because self-control is natural for volitional, conceptual beings. All human beings are, by nature, designed to control their own lives. That is why each person has a large brain, a conscious mind, and a subconscious. The human mind, which is a conceptual thinking device, exists to control one's own destiny. Defaulting on self-control always leaves one controlled by external authorities. And those external authorities are nothing more than well-camouflaged criminal minds.
The only alternative to being controlled by external authorities is to exercise self-control. And only self-control culminates in personal freedom. But the choice always rests with oneself. That choice is to let external authorities control one's life or to take complete control over one's own life.
The Error of Seeking Freedom Within the Anticivilization
Some well-intentioned people seek to restore freedom to America. They correctly perceive the unprecedented freedom, wealth, and happiness that flourished in America during the nineteenth century. Thus, they seek reforms that would make today's America as free as it was during the Gilded Age.
The problem with such an approach is that these people—whether they are conservatives, Libertarians, or Objectivists—strive to make life better, freer, and happier within a life-destroying anticivilization. Thus, they are, by definition, bound to fail. Why? Because the anticivilization is anti by definition: it is anti-freedom, anti-value, anti-wealth, anti-happiness, anti-life. And the nature of an anticivilization cannot be changed. But the anticivilization can be collapsed and replaced by the Civilization of the Universe.
Once a person identifies the anticivilization on planet Earth, that person will realize the futility of trying to restore freedom within that rotten-to-the-core world. Each person who grasps that an anticivilization exists on planet Earth understands that it is a criminal-based world. And complete freedom is impossible within a criminal-based world.
The valid approach is to abandon the anticivilization by entering the Civilization of the Universe. The first step toward the Civilization of the Universe is cyberspace. By entering into and operating from cyberspace, a person becomes free-completely free. And from that open-ended realm, anyone can increase freedom, prosperity, and happiness for all Citizens of Earth. How? One can relentlessly expose anticivilization evils—e.g., IRS/DEA-type property destruction and religious rip-offs—to world populations. As professional liars, thieves, destroyers, and killers are seen for what they really are, citizens will begin rejecting them. Eventually, no one will support such evil. And when a withdrawal of support reaches a critical mass, all souls of evil will vanish from planet Earth.
At that time, a rational world—a civilization based on business and objective law—will overtake today's irrational world. In short, by educating the world populations about the evil of the anticivilization and the good of the Civilization of the Universe, individuals will begin abandoning the anticivilization. They will do this not because it sounds good. They will abandon the anticivilization to capture quality survival and unlimited wealth.
Finally, from the perspective of the Civilization of the Universe, anyone can see that all attempts to capture freedom in the anticivilization are hopeless. Reforms, bills, laws, tax reductions, low inflation, low unemployment, new elected officials, new deals, and new contracts are all false hopes. The de facto route to complete freedom for each citizen on planet Earth is the creation of a new civilization. That new civilization is an Objectivist civilization, which is the Civilization of the Universe. And that new civilization could be available during the first part of the 21st century.
Capturing Permanent Freedom
In the anticivilization, permanent freedom is not politically correct. Obviously, political-minded leaders will lose their unearned livelihoods if every Citizen of Earth captures permanent freedom.
Integrated human beings require permanent freedom; they cannot survive very long in an environment of partial freedom or slavery. Integrated human beings need permanent freedom to survive and thrive. But in the anticivilization, permanent freedom is impossible.
Thus, to survive and then prosper, individuals will—one by one—break out of the anticivilization and enter the rational Civilization of the Universe. No one can be convinced of the need to leave the anticivilization and enter the Civilization of the Universe. Each person has to make that decision on his or her own. And as each person snaps out of the illusion-based anticivilization to enter the reality-based Civilization of the Universe, he or she will immediately capture permanent freedom.
The key to breaking out of the anticivilization and, thus, capturing abiding freedom is to think in a new way—to use reality-based principled thinking. The perfect mind is the mechanism that lets anyone think far beyond the puny anticivilization. Once one breaks out of narrow-range thinking, one wields the power of the universe. And that power is real; it can be verified via scientific experiments. The perfect mind is a real force of nature just like gravity, electricity, and the nuclear forces.
How could that be? Gravity keeps entities on earth and it keeps heavenly bodies humming in their orbits. Electricity powers entire societies. Nuclear forces keep matter intact. And the perfect mind creates man-made values ranging from micro-machines to computer technologies to galaxy clusters and beyond.
Unfettered principled thinking culminates in a new power. That power lets the individual quantum leap the dismal anticivilization and enter the uplifting Civilization of the Universe. Such a quantum leap results in permanent freedom for the individual.
Why is permanent freedom impossible within the anticivilization? Because well-hidden criminals rule the anticivilization: professional parasites survive by cleverly swindling wealth, values, and power from every Citizen of Earth. In several cases, well-camouflaged criminals permeate the highest offices in the anticivilization—high offices in government, religion, big business, the media, and education. For instance, well-hidden criminals in government spin a mortal web of subjective laws and specious regulations. Those laws and regulations have nothing to do with objective reality and valid justice. Rather, those dynamics exist to entrap value producers in a fatal web. Once in that web, value producers are forced to sacrifice their wealth, values, and life to criminal-minded leaders.
No need to reform the anticivilization; it cannot be reformed. In fact, attempts to reform it serve to prolong its stay on planet Earth. Instead, individuals can quantum jump into cyberspace and then into the Civilization of the Universe. As more people do this, the anticivilization will simply collapse into a black hole of nothingness from which it arose. When that happens, everyone will be free—permanently.
Freedom Trend
Man has lived in a state of slavery since the earliest days of civilization, dating back 10,000 years. In those early days, man lived in a society that was organized around a central leader. Citizens obeyed the commands of this central authority.
Later, after man evolved into consciousness about 3000 years ago, man lived in communal societies. Each individual was directed by the group and worked for the good of the group. Philosophies such as communism and collectivism arose to "justify" this mode of living.
With the discovery of capitalism about 250 years ago, man's life began moving away from slavery and began moving toward freedom. Although a totally free society has never existed on planet Earth, mankind has been moving toward a laissez faire capitalist society. The Industrial Revolution and American Revolution were two steps that greatly advanced human freedom.
Today, in America, there is a mixture of freedom and slavery—a blend of capitalism and socialism—which culminated in a mixed economy. In such a society, people retain about fifty percent of their freedom. The other fifty percent is lost to taxation, inflation, regulations, subjective laws, partial justice, specious lawsuits, and false power from various political, bureaucratic, legal, and big-business interests.
However, looking at the overall trend and epochal discoveries throughout mankind's history, one realizes that everyone on earth is moving toward a totally free society. No one has ever experienced such a society.
Building on great breakthroughs and discoveries from the past come two new items that will usher in a totally free world for everyone. That totally free world will be available first in America, then around the globe. And those two items are (1) Objectivist philosophy and (2) the Internet.
Objectivist philosophy is the theoretical structure for a free world—a rational world based on individualism and free markets. The Internet is the medium through which Objectivism will permeate life on planet Earth.
With these two dynamics now available, a totally free world will spring up regardless what anyone does. Short of an apocalyptic wipeout, everyone has total freedom in his or her future. From the discovery of fire, to agriculture, to mathematics, to the alphabet, to consciousness, to industrialization, and to high technology comes freedom for everybody. Such cumulative breakthroughs virtually guarantee (1) unrestricted freedom for everyone and (2) the inability to regress back into slavery. People around the globe can soon wave good-bye to wretched slavery and welcome total freedom.
The Roots of Freedom
Early in civilized man's history, human beings lived in almost 100% slavery. That is, they were controlled by a central authority figure; human beings did not own their own lives. Dissenters were imprisoned or killed.
Today, human beings live in approximately 50% slavery. That is, they are partially controlled by external authorities in government, religion, the legal profession, the media, the academe, and big business. Human beings have much more freedom in thought and action today than they had at the earliest stage of civilization. But even today, no one enjoys total freedom.
The trend in human history is toward total freedom; it is coming. The following table reveals, in essentials, the roots of freedom.
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Roots of Freedom |
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Hand Tools |
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Fire |
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Agriculture |
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Language |
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Buildings |
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Institutions |
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Commerce |
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Mathematics |
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The Alphabet |
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Consciousness |
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Medicine |
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Philosophy |
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Logic |
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Calculus |
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Physics |
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Chemistry |
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Astronomy |
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Capitalism |
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Industrialization |
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Declaration of Independence |
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Electricity |
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Telephones |
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Computers |
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Atheism |
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Objectivism |
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Libertarianism |
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Neo-Tech |
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Zonpower |
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Cyberspace |
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Local Group |
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Civilization of the Universe |
Time for Freedom
Forget the 18th century during which the American colonists came together to battle government tyranny and form a more perfect union. Now at the changing of the millenniums is the time for freedom—complete freedom.
There was never a time in history that was appropriate for 100% freedom. However, conditions exist today that are conducive to freedom—conditions that have never before existed. Human civilization is on the eve of breaking free from government oppression and religious fraud. Everyone will be free—totally and forever.
Kings and princes throughout the ages have been relatively harmless compared to 20th century mass killers exemplified by Mao Tse-Tung, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler. Yet, the relatively harmless kings and princes—i.e., parasitical leaders—had to curtail everyone's freedom. In fact, all parasitical elites must—to survive without producing values—infringe on everyone's natural right to think, communicate, produce, interact, and possess property.
Most leaders of the American Revolution were unique in history. They strove to break free from parasitical rule. But they did not strive to become the new parasitical masters who would control and drain American citizens. Instead, honorable men such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison worked to create the opposite conditions of institutionalized parasitism. These men set up a radically new dynamic that prevented any one person or group from becoming the master of American citizens.
In essence, these enlightened souls eliminated tyranny from America. Today, if alive, these men would be horrified—possibly to the point of suicide—to see their country infiltrated with tyrannical institutions at all levels of government. Escalating taxes, inflation, regulations, subjective laws, partial justice, political imprisonment, and big government would drive the Founding Fathers into a new revolution or self-imposed death. They risked their lives for liberty—not for a socialized America.
Now is the time for total freedom. Why now? Despite their unprecedented, heroic actions, America's Founding Fathers lacked key items that are crucial to freedom. Those items were not available during the 18th century; today they are available to everyone. What are those items that virtually assure total freedom for human beings everywhere?
The two key items needed for freedom—which are now available—are (1) Objectivist philosophy and (2) the Internet. Those items beget crucial things, e.g., Neo-Tech and the World Wide Web, which drive freedom everywhere on earth. Objectivism provides the unassailable defense of individual rights and capitalist markets needed to guarantee freedom for everyone. The Internet provides the forum to spread pro-freedom ideas to everyone. Those two dynamics, which were inconceivable at the time of the American Revolution, are now converging to make total freedom a certainty within most people's lifetime. Now is the right time for freedom. Criminal-minded tyranny just cannot survive when it meets uncompromising Objectivism emanating from unstoppable cyberspace.
Liberating Human Beings
The nemesis to ten thousand years of slavery is here: the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough. This breakthrough will eventually liberate all human beings on earth. Here is how:
Those who are highly motivated to be free, prosperous, healthy, happy, and in love will develop the perfect mind and body. They will evolve into Advanced Man. And from that position, they will outcompete all mystical and criminal minds. In fact, they will outcompete the entire anticivilization. Just one Advanced Man can easily outthink and outperform all Traditional Men in the arenas of power, wealth, and sexual love.
In time, the mystical mind and the criminal mind will become less and less able to enslave current and future generations of human beings—something they have skillfully done throughout history. Simultaneously, Traditional Man will notice the omnipotent, God-like power emanating from Advanced Man. Some will decide to evolve into Advanced Man so they, too, can get what they want from life.
Thus, two vectors move in opposing directions. One vector moves toward life where an increasing number of people develop the perfect mind and body. The other vector moves toward death where all mystical and criminal-minded people can no longer parasitically control and drain human beings. As those vectors travel farther apart, they will reach a critical gap whereby they can never rejoin. When that happens, rational human beings will unexpectedly find themselves in a state of total freedom—a state that has never existed on planet Earth.
The more people that develop the perfect mind and body, the quicker total freedom will arrive on planet Earth. With total freedom will come free-market dynamics that beget radically low costs of living, radically higher standards of living, higher-paying and more rewarding work, anti-aging products, immortality services, commercial space travel, and beyond.
Individuals require total freedom in order to live as human beings. They need complete freedom to think, act on their thoughts, produce tradable goods and services, enjoy love and sex, and experience happiness. History has been one gigantic demonstration that reveals how slavery, e.g., in Nazi Germany or Red China, does not lead to prosperity and happiness. Rather, slavery leads to death for all, including the slave-masters.
Finally, after ten millennia, individuals can step out of death-causing bondage and step into life-nurturing freedom. Those who use the Perfect Mind/Perfect Body breakthrough and evolve into Advanced Man will liberate themselves now. They will discover a world only hinted at during childhood—a crystal clear world free of mystical illusions. Then others will evolve at their own pace, motivated by their own self-interest. This will crescendo into a world of powerful sovereigns who can legitimately cry out, "I'm Free! Free now. Free forever!"