Short-Term Pain For Long-Term Gain
The end of the year 2A.C. (After COVID) is only just a few months away. As the governments attempt to continue pouring fuel on the fire of fear, that fuel is clearly becoming more stale by the day. More of the “fringe” and “crazy” scientific experts are gaining more eyes of the general public. More of the talking points and data that the independent media have been sharing are gaining traction in the public light. More of my friends and family are either growing tired and frustrated with the seemingly never-ending narrative or more enlightened to the nature of the true happenings of the world around them. Many still only view the increasing restrictions on free will to travel, shop, eat, and play where you want as temporary inconveniences. Some happily comply and view their compliance as a false success to navigating the “New Normal” that has been forced upon us all. Others find the restrictions as burdensome yet a necessary evil to comply with in order to enjoy the things they did Before COVID (B.C.). This piece will succeed in bringing light and hard truth to the fact that complying with authority to access some perceived short-term pleasure will not lead to less authoritarian control. Complying today well and truly means complying for the rest of your life.
To illustrate this fact I would like to point the reader back to GO-AUF: EP6 – Your Content Ratio. In this early yet powerful episode I call out the listener to evaluate their own content ratio and challenge them to improve upon it. I explore the economic concept of compound interest and how that also applies to your daily emotions, thoughts, and actions. This concept is crucial to understand and apply when considering whether or not you should comply with the authoritarian restrictions and what that compliance or rather noncompliance can compound into over time. On a daily basis, where you repeatedly place your emotions, thoughts, and actions is where your future reality will ultimately manifest. If your are in a depressed or fatalistic emotional state, your future reality will only continue to immorally descend. If your thoughts continue to be helpless and unimaginative, your future reality will only result in the shrinking of the mental cages that you operate within. If your actions are those of indifference and compliance to slavery, your future will only result in increased suffering for yourself and those around you. Likewise, if you have your sense of smell, your moral compass pointed true, an understanding of your sovereignty, your free will in tact, and continually align all of your actions with these things then your future reality can only result in freedom, happiness, and prosperity.
A major component of the larger information or knowledge war that has been waging for centuries is the deception that in compliance with authority you will be rewarded with access to great pleasures and comforts. These false rewards are no different to the carrot at the end of the stick leading the starving workhorse being held by the cruel master. How did that turn out for Boxer? If you take the carrot without putting in your work, you get the stick. If you put the work in, all you receive is a carrot. Is the reward that the master allows the horse to receive proportionate to the work the horse put in that day? What if the horse didn’t meet the master’s satisfaction that day, might it only get half the carrot? What if the horse doesn’t even like carrots, is he able to decide to receive an apple instead? Furthermore, if the horse stays in this pattern of emotional, mental, and physical slavery will its future reality ever change or will it result in more of the same, if not worse, conditions for the horse? If you could ask a foal what they would like the rest of their life to be like, would they describe this despotic situation or would they answer with sprawling fields and meadows running wild with its herd. Likewise, is compliance with these “health” or “green” passes worth the reward you receive in compliance? Are these short-term enjoyments and comforts worth the future reality of continual servitude and increased oppression? Is this what you would like the rest of your life to look like? If not, then why comply at all?
In the short-term, is noncompliance easy? In the short-term, is noncompliance fun? Is the responsibility that comes with freedom temporary? The clear and obvious answer to these three questions is a resounding no. There is no easy way out of slavery. In the book Slave Narratives of the Underground Railroad that I am currently reading, the author includes first and secondhand accounts of slaves escaping to the northern states, Canada, and even England. One was stuffed into a small wood crate and shipped northward from Virginia, another disguised himself as a woman to skirt the authorities, and many experienced frostbite, famine, and severe injury. None of their journeys were easy, fun, or temporary. For the rest of their lives they had to look over their shoulders in case someone in compliance with or brainwashed by authority was there to cause them harm. But every single one of them will resoundingly tell you that it was worth it. Every single one of them would do it all over again if they had to because in the long-term it brought them freedom, happiness, and prosperity. Today I can share firsthand that the freedom, happiness, and prosperity that will manifest in your future through noncompliance will be exponentially greater than that in a future ignorant of it.
Are intrusions into your personal health, social standing, and thoughts worth the short-term rewards that complying with these intrusions grants you? What do you get by complying today? You now get into the cities and venues that you used to freely enjoy without the restrictions. You now get to experience them alongside immoral zombie-like people who enjoy their servitude. You now get trapped by establishing this level of intrusion as your new starting point to fight back against. Do we not still have to take off our shoes at the airport? On the other hand, what do you get by not complying today? You get compounding confidence to not comply tomorrow and the day after. You find others also not complying and meet some of the best people around. You will even find that it is possible to enjoy the same (if not better) enjoyments and comforts you receive through compliance with authority. You will continue to improve as a person in the direction of aligning your emotions, thoughts, and actions with the truth. You will find the true human reset has already begun. If there are down-sides to noncompliance, to escaping slavery, I haven’t found them yet.
So now, we have come to the understanding that the perceived short-term gains through compliance are not any more rewarding than those actual short-term gains through noncompliance, compliance today means compliance tomorrow, and the benefits through noncompliance internally and externally of freedom, happiness, and prosperity will only continue to compound on themselves in the long-term. This information that you have now absorbed and understood still leaves you with a choice. Stay in compliance or actively and continually practice noncompliance against authority. In Truth, “the choice is an illusion. You already know what you have to do.”