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Why is it that we are herded into the pews
and why is it that we sit through these endless completely boring family dinners
and why is it that we were herded into the stupid little robot rows of public schools
and just forced to be so tiny?
This is the machine of the world:
that we are all crushed into these tiny cubes of self-doubt,
self-loathing, controlled, repressed, conflicted, ambivalent, ambiguous, forgetful,
impulsive and regretful, regretful and impulsive.
Every action we take we question,
every actionwe don't take we chastise ourselves for.
Every decision we doubt, every indecision we scold ourselves for.
This is the machine of the world, this is how humanity is enslaved.
This is the cage. The cage of selflessness.
I'm not allowed to have my instincts I'm not allowed to follow my passion,
because we are just afraid of being wrong.
I mean we are taken from whole sleek mammals and turned into broken
constantly turning, sputtering, sparking robots.
And we're trying to come back to life and we are struggling and striving to come back to life.
But oh my brothers and sisters it is so hard.
It is so hard and of course it's hard, because if it wasn't hard,
God wouldn't that be humiliating?
If we didn't have to strain every muscle, every fibre...
if we didn't have to evoke every Atlas world lifting shred of strength
that we could conceivably possess
and continue to have to do so day after day....
if we didn't have to do that, wouldn't it be ridiculous
that humanity were enslaved if the bars weren't very, very, very thick?
Wouldn't it be ridiculous for us to be enslaved? No.
The bars aren't thick, the bars are the world, the bars are everyone.
There is nothing larger, deeper, more powerful, more rich, more wonderful,
more beautiful, than your sovereign soul and mind...
and heart - let's throw the instincts in as well!
There is nothing larger than your judgment.
But when somebody puts forward the proposition, there is nothing in their mind
that is larger than your judgment,
nothing in their mind that is larger than your judgment.
And every concept that they appeal to is in their mind not in reality.
I mean when you look at how strong human beings are,
when you look at how magnificent and how powerful we are
- when we are free.
Well... how strong does the net have to be, to contain the great white?
Without a doubt there is a connection between everything that happened in your past and everything
that is occurring in your present and,
to free ourselves from that we must return and we have to re-experience the past.
We have to understand it as it was, not with our stories but as it was - not with our stories.
We have to return to experience the past directly, because the stories that we make up to dilute
and to dissolve the pain of the past is the prison that we are in.
We become addicted to stories for painkilling in the way
that people become addicted to morphine to painkilling - with similar results.