Midway through the year of silence
Claire Wolfe - Claire began her year of silence by disconnecting her phone and internet six months ago. This essay describes where she's at half-way through. [claire]
Back to that inevitability: If 101 Things was a protest against politics not working, then the territory I'm exploring this year is ... not a protest, but a turning away from mere doing. Don't get me wrong; doing (the right things for freedom) is vital. But doing is not a first cause.
We only do consistently right for freedom when we are free within ourselves. And then -- glory be -- our doing will not only be effective; it will be magnified. It will lead to even greater internal and external being in freedom.
Being and doing -- a great self-powering cycle.
I've become aware, now that I've forced my ownself away from some of that doing and onto the path of being, that all the literature of individual freedom, including my own, lacks vital elements. And so produces flawed results. (The single exception I can think of is Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience." But even that is about reaction to government as much as about action and being in freedom).
Previous Posts:
UN Press Release On Small Arms Conference
Response to Andy McCarthy
How We Can Get There From Here
Self introduction: an unintentional ghost and monkey wrench
Winchester for Sale
On Busybodies and Minding Your Own Business
The Battle of Wakarusa
Scientists respond to Gore's warnings of climate catastrophe
Celebrity Worship
Life Is Good (Voting Is Insane)