Why You Are Not Your Brothers Keeper. You Are Not A Sacrificial Animal To Be Used By Everyone Else.

Nor is your brother yours. The idea that one adult is supposed to feed, clothe and defend someone else is the basis of a massive fraud that you are not free to live your own life. It’s a favorite slogan of dictators and totalitarians because they need to get you to accept that you have a duty to take care of everyone else and simultaneously to put your own welfare and life second to everyone else.

The Seven Deadly Sins begin with the idea that taking care of yourself is a sin. The first deadly sin is Pride. The mainstream, by mistake abhors Pride instead of realizing what it is.

“Pride is the recognition of the fact that you are your own highest value and, like all of man’s values, it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you, the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character, your actions, your desires, your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life, so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth, so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value, but man, who has no automatic values, has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal, in the image of Man, the rational being he is born able to create, but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things, in values of matter and spirit, a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection, valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul’s shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal, against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.

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