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In life there are pretensions of authority when no such thing exists. I mean to say more precisely that students teach and teachers pretend to teach. This is one of the big lies told to everyone by all those who stand to gain from that lie.
You, as a kid, may have been instructed, or told, a story about a man named Thomas Paine, and in that story there are words told to you, if that is true, and those words are found in a book titled Common Sense.
Did you learn anything?
It is test time again.
This next test will test many things while the test is processed by whomever takes the test, really takes the test, no cheating, no looking for the answers that may be found here or there, answers that do not originate honestly from the test taker.
Is it a good idea to work for misery?
That is the test, and if you know the answer, in your own soul, or your own being, or your own self, you know the truth, and your answer is true, for you, without any grade of any kind attached to you by anyone else, you know the true answer, your true answer, and that is what counts to you.
Why do it?
Why work to be miserable if it isn't a good idea? If you passed the test, and your answer, to you, was no, no, no, it is not a good idea to work for misery, then why do it?
If you are alive today, and you are not alive in Liberty, then you will be working for misery, and no one but your own student mind can confirm or deny such a thing, at any moment, and I can't grade you on this test, and no one can grade you on this test, you will either pass or fail at your own cost.
You will flunk if that is what you do, and it won't matter if someone else confirms your grade. You flunk even if someone else says yes, you flunked. You flunk even if someone else says that no, you did not flunk, you got an A, an A+, you pass, and you pass with flying colors.
If you think, even for a moment, that you can get by this test creating, you can keep on thinking that, for as long as it works for you, and then, inevitably, the truth becomes irrefutable, as you pay the cost of failing. You either fail or you pass this test.
I have nothing to do with your grade. No one else has anything to do with your grade. You pass on your own, and you fail on your own, and that is the horrible truth to some people, and that is to some other people a form of paradise, a utopian heaven on earth.
Which are you?
I don't know.
If you look around you can see examples of other people who are working for misery, and no amount of work, it seems, accomplishes anything more than more misery. Look and see, and think, please, for a moment, why them?
Why are some people working for misery?
I can help answer that question, and you may learn the answer, on your own, and my help won't matter, you teach, you are your own teacher, that is true, and you can't know that until you know that much, in your own time.
Common Sense was written some time ago, and there is a sentence in that book that keeps returning into my own viewpoint, often, and more often, as time goes by, and once you here the words, you may find cause to learn, yourself, something, and I can't say what, exactly, you will learn. Think of the next sentence as another test, and if you fail, you pay all that has to be paid because you have failed this test. No one else will pay for your failure, only you can pay if you flunk this test.
Thomas Paine:
"Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
Working for misery.