Intellectual Loneliness

“Liberty Means Responsibility.  That’s why most men dread it.”
[George Bernard Shaw]

INTOLERANCE towards complexity isn’t the fundamental problem. INTOLERANCE of personal responsibility is the problem. Once you admit that you understand the problem in all its complexity, NOW you have:

  1. Admitted that you can no longer claim to not understand what the problem is or how to fix it. Stupidity, ignorance, and equivocation are a plausible deniability defense used by government tyrants to defend their own malicious actions.
  2. Admitted you have a moral responsibility to fix it. Otherwise you’re a DEADBEAT and a parasite on the body politic.
  3. Agreed that you must confront those causing the problem to get them to stop. People hate confrontation, even when its morally justified.
  4. Agreed that you must learn the law in order to competently confront them even though they resist and make excuses.
  5. Agreed that you may have to compromise superficial friendships you have with people around you that either promote the problem or protect it.
  6. Agreed that you must accept risks most people would rather avoid to fix the problem. This impinges on your own time and resources needlessly.

Superficiality and feigned ignorance promote and protect your own irresponsibility and avoid all the above.

Risk..

To weep…
is to risk appearing sentimental,

To hope…
is to risk despair,

To reach out for another…
is to risk involvement,

To try…
is to risk failure,

To expose feelings…
is to risk exposing your true self,

To place your ideas, your dreams before the crowd…
is to risk their loss,

To love is to risk…
not being loved in return,

To live…
is to risk dying,

But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life,
is to risk nothing.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, and is nothing. They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, and live. Chained by their certitudes, they are a slave, they have forfeited their freedom.

Only a person who risks.
is free.

More at:

The Unlimited Liability Universe, Family Guardian Fellowship
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Spirituality/Articles/UnlimitedLiabilityUniverse.htm