Freedom Is Opportunity and Financial Independence

Freedom means opportunity and choice.  Financial opportunities.  Emotional and mental choices. Physical and temporal choices.

Freedom means you have the ability and opportunity to live your life according to your own:

• Genius
• Talents
• Principles
• Bliss
• Desires
• Needs

Freedom means flexibility–  it means living a proactive, rather than a reactive, life.

In today’s world, financial independence and freedom are particularly important.  As Hakim Bey said, today most of us are more enslaved by jobs than by anything else.   As an employee, you are nothing more than a slave with some basic human rights (or not,… in many places forced labor or sweat-shop labor means near-total slavery).

If you are lucky, you spend 40 hours a week in servitude–  working hard to make other people rich.  You must show up at an exact time, and cannot leave until an exact time determined by your boss.  You must wear certain clothes, and follow certain rules.   In many ways, you are still a child– still working to please those with more power than you.

Many of you work for horrible companies– companies that pollute the environment, assist murdering governments, cheat, attack unions, lie, and hurt people.  You hate these things, but you tell yourself you “need a job”.   This may or may not be true… but one thing is true– you are not free.

To live a life full of happiness, fulfillment, and achievement, you absolutely must be free financially.  You must achieve financial independence and work for no boss but yourself.

You must also free yourself from nationalism and your government’s propaganda.   Be honest- your government is bad.  They torture people.  They imprison people wrongly.  They kill people.  They help the rich and hurt the poor.   Its the same in every country.  If you are loyal to your government and believe its propaganda, you are a mental slave.

As Bob Marley said, “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds”.

This is what freedom means-  a life that is open and full of possibilities… flexible… powerful…  principled.