“Many people trust the authorities and willingly comply with their rules. They face no dilemma, no initiatory moment, no self-defining world-creating choice point, not yet.
But as the authorities’ narratives devolve into absurdity and their rules devolve into oppression, more and more of us face this choice:
To live your truth out loud, or
To live by a lie, consoling yourself with secret protest.
To do what you know is right, or
To cave in to the pressure, consoling yourself with words you don’t believe. “I had no choice.”Yes, for many of us it has come to such a choice. The rehearsal is over.”
The Rehearsal is Over
Thanks for sharing this. I started to follow him before I even read this piece, and loved it! I agree with everything he says. I get how this is the result of a world living in denial. Hoping desperately that someone out there, anyone out there, will save us from ourselves. Yet, that is never coming. Wasn’t sleeping beauty essentially violated by the prince who saved her?! I mean, kissing an unconscious woman sure qualifies as violence, wouldn’t you agree? Not sure why that came out of me, but that’s the visual I have. Only in our reality, the prince is hideous (Epstein, as a metaphor) and has only self-interested intentions that the sleeping beauty could not possibly even be aware of…because she’s asleep, hoping to be rescued from herself. Little does she know, unless and until she wakes up BY herself, FOR herself, she’s fucked.
All that to say, I enjoyed this read.