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Millard J Melnyk's avatar

Caitlin, absolutely. Everything that matters? All lies.

So we need to take that to its inevitable conclusion.

The belief that we cannot leave unless we do it together is none other than one of those lies. We learned it while we were operating under the delusion of all the other lies we were drowned in.

But it's not like we have been sane, intelligent, capable people who were given a shit bag of bad information. The lies haven't just perverted our perspectives, our outlooks. They have perverted our internal processes as well. In fact, most of all. The damage, in turn, perverted our vision itself, corrupting everything we thought we saw.

I challenge you to get to the root of your belief that, "The only way we're getting off the set of the Truman Show is if we can all succeed in waking each other up from the lies which built it."

It's just not true.

It has not been my experience, not in the least. Nor has it been the experience of those who freed themselves from captivity and slavery of all kinds. I recommend Chapter 10 of Frederick Douglass' autobiography. Or the recounting of any woman who was stuck for years in an abusive relationship but finally managed to free herself and then walk out the door.

We each are the only one it takes. And it always happens in those two steps.

Our liberation comes well ahead of our emancipation. And the liberation requires only one will:

I will be able to escape.

I will be able to walk off the set.

I will be able to turn to everyone there and say goodbye.

And then we just walk out that door.

It doesn't matter if anyone follows or not. Each of them has to do exactly the same.

It's the kind of door that we go through alone, or we never get through at all.

The *only* place from which we can succeed in waking others up from the lies which built the prison set is from *outside that door*.

You can do it. Anyone can do it. Don't wait.

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Vin LoPresti's avatar

". . . even if you know it's all lies, you're still stuck in a world full of humans whose behavior is driven by lies." Exactly. I experience this stuckness pretty much every day.

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