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I want out. I want to escape this existence I have become trapped in. I want the future we all dreamed was possible as children, and I want that future for my children. I want to be free like no one has ever been free.
I wonder when things happened. When did the masses give up on resisting the brainwashing? When did the brainwashers themselves become brainwashed? How will this cycle ever be broken, and how will we know our new found knowledge isn’t more than additional brainwashing?
I have seen many intelligent and many wise people, and the greatest difference I have seen between is the wise know of their own brainwashing. Even if they remain unable to escape it, they see, understand, and attempt to free themselves.
Each of these steps is important. Most people can see the charade they live. People are not as stupid as most of us claim, and at least see the traps they are caught in. A smaller portion of people can fully comprehend these traps. They understand what is behind them, the potential motive, and the long term impact on their lives.
Unfortunately, this is where most will stop. We will come to terms with these traps as the facts of life, inescapable truths. For striving to fight against or change such things is a fool’s errand, an insurmountable task, the unachievable. Beyond, such efforts could easily instill hopelessness or even madness in those who try, because trying the impossible is certainly not something that happens quickly.
Perhaps the very act of trying is important. It is possible that in at least trying to escape these traps, we gain something. We admit that we deserve a better world, and we few are willing to fight for it. However misguided or ill sought our efforts were, we strove and fought for our dreams and beliefs.
One day, I will die, and I hope not to be remembered as a rich man, or as a content man. I hope to be remembered as a fighter, a man who never gave up on what he knew was right. And I hope beyond all hope that I actually made the smallest difference, maybe even disarmed a trap or two.