Rarely have I read something so good about anarchy. Except, in Chesterton or modern Darren Allan:
https://expressiveegg.org/portfolio/33-myths-of-the-system/
How nice that there are more people in the know. I haven't really woken up to it myself for a long time, only in bits and slow stretches. It can take a lifetime to realise what you've been caught in. Growing up is painful and scary. Because one is attached to it, to the old and familiar. I wish I could finally discover the lightness of being again.
Sometimes, like today, with my brothers at the table, we laughed and told each other stories where we showed courage and didn't obey those who demanded it of us. But however many moments there were when I obeyed, I regret them all.
Here is a small anecdote:
A student is on his way to a big city. Outside the city gate
he meets Death, who is sitting in the shadow of the city wall. The student sits down next to him and asks: "What are you going to do? Death replies, "I'm about to go into the city and get 100 people!" The student is frightened, runs into the city and shouts, "Death is on his way into the city! He's going to get 100 people!" People run into their houses, barricade themselves.... But there is no hiding from death. After four weeks, the student leaves the city again - and sees Death sitting in the shadow of the city wall again. He runs towards him and shouts at him: "You liar! You wanted to get 100 people! But now over 5,000 are dead!!! "Death rises slowly and says: "I took the 100 according to plan, like every week. Old, weak, sick....
The others were killed by ANGST! And YOU carried it into the city!"
Greetings to you.
Thank you for the reading recommendation and the kind, thought-provoking commentary. Really appreciate it. And yes, angst can be the real killer oftentimes, where if we could just breathe and live a bit, much trouble would pass us by unnoticed. Easier said than done, in some sense. But then again, maybe that lightness of being is always there and our mission is to rediscover it and couple it with the wisdom of experience gained across the years.