This, and the freedom to express our views,
remain the most important and most often touted of our freedoms. We take
them for granted right up to the moment when somebody says, "Shut-up!" or
"Your kind can't do that." When we unexpectedly find our own selves
victims of discrimination, we then learn what too many Americans have
known all along.
While Freedom of Aspirations is one of our
most highly touted and valuable freedoms, it remains the very most tender
(or touchy) to protect. It can be lost in only an instant to any bully
with the ability to mesmerize others into his or her support. This freedom
implies the freedom to think our own thoughts, and to develop our own
conceptions. It requires we develop a sensitivity to the illogical, upon
which others will attempt to build philosophical empires by which they
intend to enslave hosts of minions who will dedicate themselves to
over-run us. We are Americans, strong when united, but that union remains
under attack from within as well as without.
We get too easily distracted and appeased.
Most of us lose our freedom to aspire at a very young age and never
realize it. Convinced of our own lack of talents and goals, we stay
unaware of all the hazards nibbling great chunks of our self-worth away
from our lives.
We never stand a chance of protecting
ourselves from the greatest kinds of losses, if we have no idea we had
ever possessed them. Lack of awareness of a freedom to self-direct our
lives—or the sense of the hope it offers within ourselves—induces the
apathy so apparent in our midst. We have lost sensitivity to the need! You
might question that statement.
Please be aware that likely only indicates
you are a victim. Of what, you ask?
Others prey on our lack of awareness and
deadened sensitivity to our most inward selves to manipulate us into
adopting their schemes and to satisfying their power lusts. They blame our
national apathy on the only condition that can correct it at an early
enough age to ignite the spark with which we were born: That is the
awareness of self with a purpose, of self with curiosity bent toward our
inherent aspirations, of self that was banished as close to the cradle as
it could be accomplished so we could belong, not to ourselves, but to the
memetic devices inherent to the culture into which we were born. The
freedom of aspiration is simply the freedom to be ourselves.
The personal responsibility required to
apply this particular freedom is often abdicated in favor of promises made
to us by others for security and care that will be given us. Under other
circumstances, such pledges would be considered hoaxes and those who make
them as swindlers, but special circumstances act in this instance to
prevent this kind of consideration. This renders the study and grasp of
Memetics to be of particular importance to the ambitious individual
seeking to make the best possible use of his life.
One's own attitude has been shown by many
different kinds of studies to be the key determinant of personal success,
by whatever definition you might recognize that term. It is actually far
more important than ability. The actual meaning of success refers to one's
ability to accomplish whatever he or she sets out to do or become. The
amount of real success is measured not with money values, but by counting
all the little steps taken toward advancement on a chosen path. Money
values count only where they are an acknowledgeable feature of those
steps. Money values are often counted and expressed as important by those
very same people who know their own success requires that they lure us
away from our own chosen paths through life, and accomplish that by
killing our self-awareness. Predators and prey all over again, as
expressed in my own book,
The Sand Wytch of Desert Low.
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