When I say fight for your individuality, I am not talking about the ego. I am talking about what makes you different and unique from the rest of the crowd and best exemplifies your true heart and creative spirit. I am not talking about needing to argue your point or prove the validity of your opinions, I am speaking to keeping in tune with the highest forms of self expression and free thought within yourself, which should be in constant development and evolution.
Fighting for your individuality and self expression means being willing to stand alone in a crowd without the need of support or agreement from anyone, aside from your own conscience. It means not being afraid to speak your mind and raise your voice, regardless of whether or not it might be deemed "politically incorrect" by family, friends, or coworkers. Yet, again, it is not speaking from a place of ego or argumentative opposition, but in the vein of staying true to your own instincts and intuitions, regardless of how it might "rock the boat" of consensus viewpoints and manufactured notions of "reality".
If 2020/21 has revealed much of anything, it is that it's become a world of false left/right paradigms which are meant to herd us into easily defined corrals of uniformity where you are either black or white or up or down, but there can be no middle ground or gray area between these two extreme divisions (though they are actually just two wings of the same bird, pretending to be in such drastic opposition in order to manipulate our emotions and direct our actions). The politicians and media and social engineers are controlling the narrative so much that anyone who does speak out in the middle ground or gray area is either silenced due to "community standard violations", marginalized through the social media dictatorship, or dubbed a crazy "conspiracy theorist".
Likewise, they are deemed a part of the radical right, or the radical left, depending on which accusation best suits the agenda of the narrative at the time. In this hypocritical vacuum of reactionary ignorance, it has basically become such that you simply HAVE to be left or right, because to be otherwise is beyond the comprehension of media or the average person, who is being force fed their beliefs by the television and their chosen sources of mainstream news and information. Tragically, independent thought, critical thinking, rationality, and logic has had little place in the birth of this new decade.
The only "equality" the Powers That Be truly care about is in that we are all equally compartmentalized, neutered, herded into little groups of thought and opinion, and that those opinions aren't even our own but are dictated to us through the constant bombardment and inundation of corporate influenced media outlets. The Powers That Be seek to control human growth and development, so long as it still fits in to their goals and political agendas. Most of the causes of "social justice" are in fact political movements designed to keep us plugged in to the very system that seeks to control and oppress us. We often see this truth most exemplified every election cycle as the same tired tropes of "progress" are dusted off and shoved in our faces time and time again, fueled by the media's desire for ratings. To be "woke" in this generation usually means to be thoroughly inundated into a political scheme or psychological operation of disinfo and misdirection, now in easy to digest meme form.
We are stuck in the loop of an endless news cycle, constantly regurgitating the same 4 "expert opinions" over and over again, programming us into becoming automatons of listless conformity, herded cattle to be degraded and abused, and as stereotypical representations of mass mediocrity which is to be disrespected and not taken seriously. To say "trust the science" in this day and age is to basically say "trust the system", "trust your corporate masters", "trust the government", and a vast amount of people, indeed, are doing just that. The dependency upon government "stimulus" and "bailout" is becoming so frequent that if the population was told to bend over and take it, we are quite literally arriving at a time in human history in which it may be viewed as standard procedure in which we thank them for the opportunity. We are serving as active facilitators to our own degradation.
But the point of all of this is to say: Find your voice! Make sure that your thoughts and mind are your own and not just parroting of a news outlet or consensus viewpoint of the left/right. Don't let your "righteous anger" be manipulated by a roulette wheel of worthless politicians of which their sole purpose is to rile up further turmoil and division for the sake of getting people to the polls and voting. There are a lot of people in the world who LOVE TO HATE and need validation that you hate with them. They don't even realize what they are doing, they just love to feel any emotion, even if it's negative, because it makes them believe they are being legitimate and sincere. Yet all the while the social engineers are what is churning out the hate, and churning out the fake social outrage and impotent "movements" designed to herd humanity into causes of conformity. And they will keep churning out the fear and division as long as the ratings sustain.
Don't buy into the trolls on social media who love to incite conflict for the sake of it. They are pitiful losers and half the time aren't even real accounts but just more fake bullshit meant to stir the pot and turn us against each other. FIGHT FOR YOUR INDIVIDUALITY and truer self, and never stop seeking that inner intuition and unique creative spark. Never stop seeking information and knowledge from a wide variety of sources, while formulating your own opinions. Every inch we give, they will take 3 more, and for every bit of our individuality we give, they will insert a program to assimilate our personality. Unplug from the fake left/right paradigm and seek out those who are not so easily manipulated. Find your tribe! They are out there, though social media seeks to neutralize their viewpoints. Be original. Be unique. Be yourself.
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