> I agree with Shaun. I didn't get turned on to most of the ideas that > fascinate me so much as the result of media hype or some leader. I > was just a curious mind, and I explored the world of ideas because it > was fascinating to me. This is what I want to encourage: people > quietly exploring the ideas which interest them. No fanfare. No > media hype. No leaders. Just people pursuing their own interests.
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> I have nothing against highly respected people (a.k.a. "leaders); in > fact, I wish to become one myself. But I believe that people's most > influential leaders should be themselves; that people should look to > themselves to decide what to do with their lives rather than doing > what others say they "should" do.
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> The revolution that is occuring right now on this planet in freedom > and independence of thought and the general "waking up" of humanity is > a very quiet revolution. It's a revolution that takes place within > individual humans, as individuals start realizing that they can take > control of their own lives and become the people they want to be. > It's not something that receives a lot of media hype, because each > time the revolution happens, it only involves a single person. People > just start waking up and getting their lives figured out; they start > realizing what they want and how to make it. It's nothing that is > decided by the government leaders, and they actually have very little > influence over the revolution, since they don't have fine-grained > control over every individual's mind. The revolution is not an >organization; it has no leaders.
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> Those who do free themselves to run their minds and lives how they > want certainly have influence on other people; especially people they > are close to. People see them and see their freedom; they see someone > who is not a sheep, who doesn't respond to things the same way that > the flock does. Some people are scared to leave the flock and become > independent, but many people see the example of those who do free > themselves, and they desire freedom also. So they start figuring out > how to do it, mostly on their own, learning how to take responsibility > for their own lives, their own decisions, their own thinking.
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> The single most important thing we can do to advance the quiet > revolution is to continue making ourselves more free and powerful. > "Spreading the word" is not nearly as important as living it. Freedom > is not something that can be pushed on people or hyped up very much. > People will come to freedom when they are ready to take charge of > their own lives. Freedom is much more difficult a lifestyle than the > alternative; if it wasn't so tremendously rewarding, there would be no > reason to seek it out.
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> - David Musick
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I agree completely!