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You are not a follower. You are not a leader's acolyte. Nor are you a grown-up child, to be scolded by those who say they are your rulers. You are a human being, born to be and live free.

The words of politicians and the news media are clear examples that something does not need to make sense or follow reason to be promoted as truth. Genuine truth generally takes serious seeking to find. And it requires asking a lot of questions that politicians discourage and the media avoids.

A healthy forest consists of many individual trees and plants, none of which is considered more important, necessary, essential, or privileged than the rest. Nature has no “elites.”

Those who put Freedom between quote marks are A) trolls, B) bought & paid “influencers,” or C) people who watch and believe the “news.” Freedom. No quotes.

When you live long enough, you see patterns emerging in the stories you’re told. And you’re less likely to believe them the second or third or fourth or fifth time as you were the first.

A great way to keep a story going, whether it’s true or not, is to provide endless and daily “updates.” This is priority one for “news” and social media: endless fear, anxiety, and calls to compliance. Turn off the noise.

Just for one day, give yourself the gift of peace. Turn off the “news,” and go do anything else, from weeding the garden to simply staring at the sky. Refresh your soul.

Myths aren’t just stories of gods and goddesses bound up in a book. Myths are created everyday for us by the news, the government, and corporations. In the 21st century, myths are propaganda, masquerading as truth.

Do something today, even if it’s a work day, that will make you feel satisfied and good for having done it. It won’t be looking at a screen. It will be something real, like creating something.

To survive in American society you must be enough of a cynic to doubt all words of “authorities,” yet enough of a child to believe that goodness and magical and wonderment exist (definitely unconnected with the authorities).