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Freedom is a state of mind. Some people, like myself are innately free. I grew up in the U.S. where U.S. statism was forced down my throat by my parents, mainly by my father. It may be helpful to know that I'm not White. I'm the guy across the room observing White people looking at the world and each other through their rose' filled wine glasses. When you are free, you ask a lot of questions. My user name is Y ers, in other words: I'm a "why?" er. In my adulthood in grad school, I would answer a lot of questions. It was my way of balancing the scale, or in civic language...giving back, for all the questions I asked others and myself in my youth and early adulthood. Freedom is like good looks, it is both a blessing and a curse. When you're free in the workplace, you step on your deadbeat co-worker's toe or foot as he lies stretched out for a snooze. You, in other words, try to make things efficient so that you can help raise the tide that'll lift all boats...and deadbeats. Deadbeat workers are like the state, they don't want anyone important to figure out that they are no longer needed, so they retaliate. They are like Chihuahua's. They only bark when you are ready to step on them. I have two parakeets in a cage. They may not be physically free, but they are free mentally, and spiritually. When I try to get the sky blue colored one to perch on my index finger, it looks up at me perplexingly, like an old man with a big nose, and through body language says. "Thank you, but no thank you, Sir." When I try to get the lemon yellow one to do the same, it will mount my finger, dance around like an American Indian dance, then take hold of my finger with one of its talons and bite and pull my skin. It hurts. When I hang their cage outside under the avocado tree in the morning, both are as happy as a person who holds a winning lottery ticket. We can learn a lot from animals who think for themselves and are overjoyed by the simple, and free things in life. So freedom is a state of mind. It is the nagging will to proceed with one's purpose or agenda no matter what stands in the way or what demands are made against that. If you are like me, you will now receive your "inheritance" or "dividends." A person who is free and pursues free will, will now have the knowledge and wisdom, so valuable a commodity in these coming days and times. Being free means you are ready to answer the call of the free marketplace once the chains and ropes of state totalitarianism rusts and rots away. Which may be soon. It means being appreciated in the workplace for being an invaluable human resource. So many times I lament the waste of resource when I see a black person fill the void of a statist position, like a cop or Marine. I lament because I would think that black person would recognize the evil and immorality of seeking statist power after having been a victim of it for so long. If you were truly free at heart and behaved as such, you would be fully prepared in mind and spirit to benefit from what lies ahead. On the other hand, if you weren't free, what awaits you is great uncertainty and a mystery of how to cope