The Moral Fiber of Self Development
Finding freedom in the pursuit of justice
This morning I was awake before the birds. I’ve grown to appreciate these times of early morning wakefulness while the day still sleeps around me. It’s a benefit of being part of the 5am club, though still accidentally.
Among my tasks is regaining secured access to my Facebook account… it was hijacked a couple of weeks ago and it’s been slow going to troubleshoot where the problem is.
But rest assured, apparently there’s someone out there in the ether who’s on it:
.So for now, looks like I still need to sit tight. In the meantime, I can access from my laptop, but not from my phone, which kinda defeats the point of it, but …
Fortunately, emails and text messages still come through!
Allow me to recommend one of my favorite fellow Libertarian-inclined Substackers Brian O’Leary. I found him through The Tom Woods School of Life, also a worthy endeavor of self-development… this morning’s epistle is a bit of gold to orient yourself around!
And as I mark the culmination of my first full year here, at almost a steady weekly pace (the average counts, right?!), I share again my own personal, most beloved, post of the year… one that I feel best brings the virtue of my calling into focus and context.
Slavery or Freedom?
"Liberty, by its very nature, undermines social equality, and equality suppresses liberty – for how else could it be attained?” Solzhenitsyn observed. Asked … whether it is true that free people could desire to be slaves, he replied, ‘Yes, today’s Western Europe is full of such people.’ Today’s America is similarly stocked.”
Do we want freedom (to strive and fail and flourish), or equality (some misnomer of promised pre-defined comforts)?
There’s a resolute justice in the experience of cause and effect, regardless of where we are in the question. It has more to do with self esteem and respect for other than any other metric I’ve figured out yet.
I love what this can do for my reputation … which can be, and has been, easily demolished overnight with a few well-positioned gossip rags. Welcome to our conglomerate of mass media.
But welcome also to the documentation of our counter narrative. Our searching for Spirit.
It’s all about the assumptions we filter our world with. Which is an effect of the choices we make and can continue to make. Free will, baby. & the grace of God.
Glad you’re here, happy to be providing value. I trust you find what you need. Thank you for being with me here, in our navigation for greener shores.
This next week I’m writing out the education policy I’d like to see flourish.
Stay tuned.