The Individual, his freedom, and victory

The Individual, his freedom, and victory

by Jon Rappoport

October 18, 2017

We are in a war.

The State, as now constituted, pretends it favors giving away the farm for nothing “to those in need.” What they really means is: they steal the farm, and then they give it away on their terms.

Genuine entrepreneurs know what it’s like to get up in the morning and re-create their enterprises and make them work every day. They know how much energy it takes. They know it isn’t the easiest thing in the world, but they value the FREEDOM it brings. They know how it feels to follow their own desires. These people are real. They exist.

They experience frustrating days when their business isn’t going well. On those days, they feel trapped in the very universe they created. They wonder how it might be to give up and go to work for someone else. They even wonder how it might be to get a desk job in government and feel the protection of government. But they don’t give in.

They’re too stubborn to give in. They show up every day and they push their enterprise forward.

And these are the people about whom Obama said: “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

Sure, Mr. President. We weren’t there at all. We’re fictions. We don’t exist. Other people are always standing in for us. It’s not our sweat, it’s not our power, it’s not our imagination, it’s not our commitment that invented and sustained our businesses. It’s all done by remote control from Washington. I’m glad you finally clarified this mystery for us. You’re a genius.

People who’ve never started and run their own enterprises don’t understand. They don’t know what the sweat means and the struggle means and the vision means and the power to keep doing it every day means, and they don’t know what the joy of earning their own way means and what deeper victory means.

There are people who don’t understand what a FREE INDIVIDUAL is. They want a world of Central Planning. They feel a welter of emotions, all negative, when they contemplate THE FREE INDIVIDUAL.

Newsflash: Money is not inherently evil. Profit is not inherently evil.

What is evil is trying to melt the individual into the collective. That has always been evil.

For the free individual, “the highest work possible” doesn’t involve leaving one’s desires behind, in order to become the abject servant of a Cause. He doesn’t suddenly develop an egoless and empty personality in order to “connect” with a goal that floats in an abstract realm.

The free individual isn’t shaped. He shapes.

He doesn’t fall on his knees and grovel to seek public acceptance.

The mob, the herd operates on debt, obligation, guilt, and the pretense of admiration for idols. These are its currencies.

The herd, seeking some reflection of its unformed desire, constructs a social order based on need—and the substance of that need will be extracted through coercion, if necessary, from those who already have More.

This need, and the proposition that the mob deserves its satisfaction, creates a worldwide industry.

Among the industry’s most passionate and venal supporters are those who are quite certain that the human being is a tainted vile creature. Such supporters, of course, are sensing their own reflections.

The great psychological factor in any life is THE DESERTION OF INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM. Afterward, the individual creates shadows and monsters and fears around that crossroad.

Freedom is the space and the setting, from which the individual can generate the thought and the energy-pulse of a great self-chosen objective.

In that place, there is no crowding or oppressive necessity. There is choice. There is desire. There is thought.

“Being absorbed in a greater whole” isn’t an ambition or philosophical prospect for the free individual. He sees that fixation as a surrender of self.

The Collective, whether envisioned as a down-to-earth or mystical group, promises a release from self. This grand solution to problems is a ruse designed to keep humans in a corral, a prison. After all, how are you going to control and eventually enslave people if you promote the notion that each individual has freedom and free choice? The abnegation of self is a workable tactic, as long as it is dressed up with false idols and perverted ideals.

Self is fundamentally creative, dynamic, forward-looking, energetic, powerful, engaged. The Collective looks for shadows of those qualities in the government as its source of survival.

The free individual isn’t opposed to helping others, but he is against a culture that is so preoccupied with “raising up the lowest” that it nurtures a hatred of liberty. And this is a crux, because growing millions of people are all too eager to shed the last fragments of their Selves to join in a fantasy of “everybody gets everything.”

The fantasy doesn’t work. The melting down of all of humanity into a mystical goo is an illusion that can’t stand the test of time. Eventually, a person falls out of that construct and remembers he must depend, to an alarming degree, on his own inner resources.

The free individual doesn’t act in ways that limit the freedom of others.

Self-sufficiency is both an essence and outcome for the free individual.

If America had pursued a path of making the nation self-sufficient, without relying on entangling foreign political and business relationships, it would have avoided the corruption that naturally flows from those relationships, and it would have become living proof that freedom and the principles of the Republic work. It would have become a shining example to the rest of the world, a new standard to emulate.

Far from committing the “sin of isolationism,” it would have provoked others to try the experiment of freedom.

The free individual discovers his way through imagination and creative power, because that is the answer to the question: what is freedom for?

Without exercising imagination and creative power, freedom withers and dies. It becomes an empty slogan. It becomes an empty stage.

We are told, in a thousand ways, that the free individual is the personification of greed and theft and crime. That is false.

The free individual imagines and creates on a scale that supersedes and ignores the Collective. His work naturally spills over and benefits others.

Advocates of the Collective falsely claim the free individual is cold and uncaring and remote and “without humanity.” Meanwhile, their picture of a society based on need is a poisonous affectation; it is constructed because these advocates are walled off from their own power. Therefore, they substitute endless entitlement.

Their only nod of acknowledgment to the individual has been to propagandize him as an outsider, a potential danger, a lurking menace, a person waiting to be diagnosed with a mental disorder.

These days, it is the Group that is elevated. We must absorb the individual in the system so the Group is protected and safe. We must omit mention of the individual in teaching children. We must say that now the nation is nothing more than an interconnected Whole. We must promote interdependency as the highest ideal. We must declare it is obvious that all actions must be judged on the basis of how they will affect the well-being of the Collective.

Even accepting Mill’s specious pronouncement that society should be organized on the basis of the greatest good for greatest number, the questions remains: what is the greatest good? Is it that which makes us, more and more, into a Group? Or is it that which liberates the individual to pursue his highest aspirations?

The greatest good liberates the individual, and then the door is open. Who will walk through it? Every person who has divested himself of collective consciousness.

Then perhaps historians and scholars will be forced to change their stories. Perhaps, some day, they will admit that history, before it was hijacked, revealed a progression away from the Group and toward the individual. Perhaps they will be forced to admit their affected fetish about “primitive societies” was a ruse to convince us that, once upon a time, we lost our way, when we disentangled ourselves from group consciousness.

Oh, there will be screams. There will be many screams. There will be accusations that we are deserting the human race, that we are leaving others behind, that we are refusing to help those who need it.

Eventually, those screams will die on the wind. As many wake up and realize they had sacrificed their lives on the altar of the Group, the protests will fade out.

Because many will see, as if for the first time, what freedom means and how it feels.

And against that, there is no argument.

The titanic myths that have been foisted on humanity and the titanic acceptance of those myths by humanity are all focused on one lie: the individual cannot stand on his own; he must subjugate himself to a system.

I don’t care what form that higher system takes. It’s all a lie. It’s all geared to promoting slavery. It’s all geared to allowing the few to control the many.

And the few WILL control the many, until the day comes when enough individuals throw off ALL the deceptions that permitted them to think The Individual was less than he is.

The day will dawn when the individual knows he is greater than any and all groups and collectives by any name flying under any flag, espousing any gibberish, elevating any fairy tale, seducing with any promise, hypnotizing with any idol or misbegotten legend.

That day will dawn.

But why wait?


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Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world. You can sign up for his free NoMoreFakeNews emails here or his free OutsideTheRealityMachine emails here.

21 comments on “The Individual, his freedom, and victory

  1. Rufus Xavier Sarsaparilla says:

    Radio Free America Announcer: It’s 11:59 on Radio Free America; this is Uncle Sam, with music, and the truth until dawn. Right now I’ve got a few words for some of our brothers and sisters in the occupied zone: “the chair is against the wall, the chair is against the wall”, “John has a long mustache, John has a long mustache”. It’s twelve o’clock, American, another day closer to victory. And for all of you out there, on, or behind the line, this is your song.

    [the Battle Hymn of the Republic begins to play]

  2. From Quebec says:

    Frank Sinatra–My Way

    https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=PnXIPV6Jh4Y

    • bob klinck says:

      Funny title: “MY Way” plagiarized from the song “Comme d’habitude” by Claude François, who was ‘accidentally’ electrocuted in his bath.

  3. Mark says:

    Mill: ‘Greatest *happiness* for the greatest number’. ‘Happiness’ is much more subjective and individual than ‘good’. ‘Good’ has strong overtones of requiring an arbiter. For ‘good’ think Plato’s Republic and the guardian class.

    In On Liberty Mill’s key concern was to try to overcome the majoritarian and oppressive aspects of the ‘greatest happiness’ formula.

    In general the utilitarians favoured small government, though their formula and political influence has certainly run alongside, and perhaps been significantly responsible for, big government.

  4. Here disagree, Jon

    Profit is the “root” of all evil as it standardises “exploitation”

    Who sets value? Who has the “right” to set value?

    Is the retail or wholesale or some “fiction” price the correct price? If so, does the retailer “rip off” all buyers?

    Why does anything have a “price”?

    Was anything “owned” at the start. If not, why is it owned at the end?

    These questions should be answered first.

    Best
    OT

    • From Quebec says:

      Oh Boy, Ozzie! How can you come to that conclusion?

      A guy takes a bit of earth in his hands. earth that is available to anyone. He takes a bit or water (also free) mix it with the earth and decides to make a sculpture out of it.

      It turn out to be a beautiful sculpture. So, he makes another one and another one and another one. . And then, he decides to sell them because all of his neighbors want to have one. So, how much should he sell them? Well, it all depends on how much he thinks they are worth. He sets his price and people will either buy it or not.

      If he sells them all, at the price he decided, he may continue to do more sculptures. He will make more and more. He might even decides to start a business out of it.

      If he does, and if it works just fine, he will now be free. He will be doing something he really likes to do, and he will be able to make a good living out of it.

      I see nothing wrong with that. Why do you?

    • Joseph Ray Turnage says:

      I see on your WordPress page you “now proudly and humbly offer live light DNA reading consultations aimed at revealing aspects of anyone’s deep historic past”.

      As ‘profit is the root of all evil’ I assume you do this for free?

    • bdoyen says:

      Wow, Ozzie.

      Profit is not evil.

      In a free society, the person who creates has the right to set “value” as you put it. The “correct price” as you call it is the amount the buyer will agree to. If the creator prices his product too high, no one will choose to buy. Too low, and he makes no profit and may go out of business. If the government forces us to buy a product or sets the price, we are not free.

      In a free society, we may choose to do work for no profit, which is what volunteers do for a worthy cause of their choosing. But a free person also does work for profit so that he is able to be responsible for his owns needs. Whenever a third party interferes in our freedom to set our own prices, we are not free and do not have a free market. Capitalism means that you and I can agree to an exchange of services, goods or money without being controlled by a third party. We do not have capitalism in the US because we are not free to create this exchange without all manner of government interference.

      If I am really good at raising vegetables and my neighbor loves to make garments, we can set the “value” of one good against the other and have an exchange so that we each can concentrate on that which we do best without having to do everything for ourselves.

      I do not understand why people are so confused about this. It’s really very simple. Perhaps everyone should have the experience of starting a small business in their youth; it would help later to understand why their employer should be making a profit.

      Being free to interact with each other is vital–or else we are slaves.

    • bob klinck says:

      Anybody who does something without believing it will be profitable (not necessarily only for himself) is thwarting the goodness potential of the world and is psychologically warped. That being said, the idea that everyone must in perpetuity struggle to carve out a place for himself in the economic domain ignores the thanks we owe our predecessors and contemporaries for the society of abundance (actual and potential) that their efforts and imagination have created. “Hey–slap! slap!–wake up: the number of industrial robots–mechanical slaves–is doubling annually and has no theoretical limit.” The proletariat is obsolete. Now all we need is a sane and civilized adaptation to the new economic reality that will relieve the financial powers of their outrageous claim to ownership of mankind’s cultural heritage.

  5. bdoyen says:

    Superb article, Jon. Thank you!

  6. shemp for victory says:

    You didn’t build that sounds like something the half breed mongrel rat trojan horse p.o.s. would say.
    Because there is an interstate system that Eisenhower copied from Hitler’s autobahn was the reasoning and logic behind this statement.
    True believers in the failed god known as government think government is always a source for good and the solver of every problem known to man when all it really does is give jobs to those who couldn’t work anywhere else and make things worse.

  7. Tom says:

    Reminds me of the Song from John Mayer(?) with the lyrics that state “Its a lie I have to rise above”…I cannot remember the song….but that lyric comes to mind. Good article.

  8. From Quebec says:

    Jon Rappoport hosting the 4th hour on the Alex Jones show, today:

    Start listening at 13:50

    Alex Jones (4th HOUR Commercial Free) Thursday 10/19/17: Jon Rappoport

    https://www.youtube.com /watch?v=GhFVY2RPt2g

  9. Sean says:

    I dont care for that statement I am in the world but not of the world. Because it seems like it gives permission to not do anything about anything. Or something. Or one is spiritually above doing anything about it or something.

    If we are participating in an Empire and not the American Republic and truly want no part of the Empire, and recognizing that a long term view is a smart strategy to turning it around by coming up with more and more ways of being free in this environment, means I am not just in the world and not of the world position I think.

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