The Winning Essay

November 1, 1999

By Sarah Vaughan-Shaw

Living in a free world, I would take upon myself as to choose if I want my children to go to school or learn from life, not just to home teach but to world teach. I would be free to run my businesses as I choose and not as they tell me. I would make an agreement with workers on their adding to the bottom line of the company -- not on the time they take holding onto a cup of coffee and taking smoke breaks because it is a smoke-free building and they have to go outside and take up the time they should be producing. I would not have to pay someone for stealing company time if they are not working. I should be able to dock their pay or just pay for actual work like the time they are typing etc.

My husband and I would enjoy life instead of always talking about how bad things are at his job because of the non-productive way they handle things. We would be able to have fun with each other and be very much in love like in the early days of our marriage. It would be a life full of our own choices to go where we want when we want without fear because everyone would be living as they choose, not as they are told. And that would make travel safe because you know the people working at that job are there because they want to be and not just because it pays the bills. A free world is happy and consists of healthy people for once, and so then I could really began to live.

Freedom Competition Guidelines

Win a collection of the most powerful pro-freedom comic books while freeing people everywhere. Here’s how:

Submit a one-page essay containing approximately 250 words describing how you will benefit from living in a totally free world: a world free of dishonesty, coercion, and destruction inherent in earthbound governments, religions, and media communications. Give specific examples of how, by being free to act on the authority of your own consciousness, you would gain values and prosper without limits. For example, you might explain how your career or love relationship would get better and more fulfilling in an environment of total freedom.

Send your essay to the Local Group via this form by October 31, 1999 to be eligible for this competition. The winner will have his or her essay published on www.localgroup.net. He or she will also receive for free a set of the 1997 Anarky miniseries comic books by Local Group customer and Batman author Alan Grant. This four-part miniseries blends Objectivism, Libertarianism, and Neo-Tech with the famous characters of Anarky and Batman. These comic books are highly recommended for augmenting your understanding of the above idea systems and the crucial need for freedom now, here on earth.

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