Risking Your Life To Be Free

Do we really have to obey the system to survive?

Gabriel Phelps
9 min readJul 13, 2021
Young man covered in sticky notes, work overload
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If you need money they say, “go get a job, why is that so difficult?” Reason number one, you have little control over your bodily health most often. When you are tired, many jobs don’t let you rest and this can build up over time to being a critical siutation. Adding on to the fact that your pay is often lower than what you deserve but that usually always an argued point because of the trickledown shareholder mentality. But along with a whole array of reasons why getting a job can be difficult, why have so many of us accepted this statement to go get a job instead of perhaps creating your own job?

Growing up in this world, many of us are not given clear examples of people who started their own job and became succesful on the back of creativity and solidarity. I mean there are charity organizations but they don’t really profit so much and those who are creative are not entierly challenging the system of anti-creativity. I support creatives and charities no doubt, but their source intentions can sometimes get in the way along with how they are going about their business.

But many of us don’t see growing up many examples of how one can dedicate a model of self-sustaining survival while trying to help people beome aware of the idealogical issues that suppress all nodes of society, financial inequality being one of the biggest factors. And on a surface level, it may seem that this is the problem we have because the people haven’t been willing to continually meet with the big boys around town whether that be various shareholders of a company, top bankers, and or politicians. From a strictly material viewpoint, it would seem that the solution requires us to constantly be in jurisprudence negotiation with these high ranking officals, but the only problem with this is that they won’t care. They will either deny any meeting with you or tell you we will work on steps to change the issues of today with their fingers crossed.

But if we go beyond the surface level, we see their are a host of ideas that have given permission to a small select few to have dominion over the lives of most people. These ideas go from religious and scientific fundamentalism, to ontological precepts about ourselves which given throughout time, we notice that the major body of people have chosen to believe that it is ok for a small group of people to have most of our resources and ability to govern those resources. But this isn’t just strictly from the roots of religion and science, though we have seen these institutions prop up edifices of presitge for certain people, but this is from the roots of a much further time where my theory goes into something often untold.

But before I proceed any further, I know I have probably lost some of you at the the concept of “risking your life to be free”, but if we are really talking about freedom, we must go beyond surface level activists and understand the roots of ideological abuse.

This Isn’t Some Scheme “hey do this and be free!”

I will remind you that I know what my initial statement was and it was a preface to being free of physical slavery to some institution that doesn’t care about your basic needs. And now as I continue with where I have been going, I know I have probably lost some of you because there is a strong idea that we don’t have to dig deeper into this thing I am talking about related to ideas, and that is exactly ok if you want to beleive this for I am perfectly fine with losing you at this point without any judgment. We are all on different paths.

So as we keep going into history, we find that there are certain individuals who have really no empathy for others and have always sought positions of prestige and power. Now we might ask why do narcissists exist in this world if they are only meant to be in these positions and create a mass slave race for their ends of whatever that may be. That is a question for you to take on your journey individually but if you are really curious, I would prompt that I have seen a website out there that discusses some of this. But I would rather go into what the initial idea was that they started putting out there.

“We are actually supeior because we have the capacity to think in very sophisticated ways which is the only necessity to solve all sociological issues” is what they say. They may not have said it like that directly as so, but you can best bet that this was the underlying motive behind most of their social interest and activities whenever that was, for we see it in every culture where these types of beings have had a highly prominent success to be in positions of influence.

But if you ask some of these people today, they won’t say it out loud, thereby covering up their incentive for more privilege and power. So how do you know what I am saying is true, how do we know that this idea can be the mother root of many other social ideas? Well first you have to feel inside yourself whether or not I am coming from a selfish place and see if I am trying to gain anything from what I am writing. Then you have to evaluate if perhaps I might be trying to prove somebody wrong or more so trying to convince anyone that what I am saying is the only way to look at it or rather the best way to look at it.

If at all I come off as someone trying to fixate my intentions here from the basis on one of these questions, then I am sorry, but I try not to get into that mess because I personally feel very strongly that that way of living is so incredibly messy as I have been there before and it’s possible it will come up again. I have never identified myself as a narcissist but, I know I have taken on some of those qualities having been raised up in this world but just for a moment recognize, how this statement can be used by any narcaicist to keep their cover. I am not trying to deflect from me but I am putting this statement out to anyone who thinks they can keep their prestige and using very manipulative statements. Also I don’t consider myself very prestigious for living in my god mother’s basement and having almost no money.

“You claim we can be free of the elites but you have nothing?”

Is it really nothing, am I really unhappy, is happiness really the meaning of life, is there really any ulitmate meaning in this world that we can describe in concepts or words? My answer I have come to is no, but that doesn’t mean that concepts and words can’t help us from achieving a more objectionable and pure reality beyond the manipulation you see left and right in this world. So you may be right that I have nothing, or rather nothing on (lol), to backup from what I say, but you don’t really need much to share something that can be most profound. I do understand that most people won’t find what I am sharing most profound, but I am not looking to reach most people.

So you want to be free of the regular everyday life of slaving away to some business that doesn’t have your basic needs in priority? Well then you must understand that one of the biggest illusions is that you need to depend on someone else’s business, money, products or services in order to survive. People say they want to be independent but look at what that word really means… and then ask yourself if you really want to be independent and the answer is a strict no because people can’t imagine how they are going to survive without the security net of someone else’s vision.

I would say I am a living example of someone who is living more independently of anyone even though I don’t pay the rent or any other bills other than the bill to be who I really am, which doesn’t cost me anything but the willingness to keep being who I am. And I can tell you who I am not is someone who dedicates their lives to addictions even though that does come up every now and then for me, but it hasn’t been the majority of my life and for almost six years running, I have been striving to understand how can I understand and share ideas that can best benefit everyone. My conclusion is really beyond words, but I have had to continually let go of my ideas and what I know to receive something new, and this process has repeated itself over and over in ever accelerating rates.

“Wrap this up man, just tell it to me simply”

Yes I will wrap this up now, but there is no ultimate answer which means I cannot entirely tell you how to do this, as there is no one way on how a person can achieve “freedom” to the definition of making money and the other things that go on with that. But this world will stretch you to your almost death if you don’t go along with how to be free according to anyone, no matter how smart or enlightened you are. But when you get to the depths of basic survival you will be given a choice to submit to the ways of the world or will you bring something of a new world into this one? Both decisions have a very different end game but in the short-coming, most people can only think of their bodily needs not being taken care of as well as perhaps some of their loved ones that they may be in a relationship with.

Some of you may think I am insane for saying this but as I am concluding now, I will say your body doesn’t really have any ultimate needs in order for YOU to grow, for are you your body? Well certainly most people react to their body, and are told who they are is their looks, the mobile ability and faculties, but when we see a whole society begin to fall because of these idealogical notions, what does that tell you what are true identity may be? But the pain of the body breaking down is really only the pain of your perception about the body being who you are. Now if this doesn’t simply how unreal some of our contracts and relationships with everyday life might be, I don’t know what will, well I do, but it would be rather unkind to speak of death like that lol.

So as my final remark, I will not say that I have the ultimate view for how to describe one person to be free, but I will say I have a rather challenging view in respect to the majority in their views about life. Not everyone who challenges others is always right, but I make sure that when I challenge, it isn’t from the basis of trying to get anything in return even though that could be a secondary tip most enjoyable, I know my true self doesn’t depend on me having to have any specific experience, especially relating to my body, in order to live on and do what I love, which is to free myself from the perceptions of illision this world has given me for free, but I would’t call that truly free for there have been many conditions that come with that sense of freedom.

So my friends if you will allow me to call you that, you would be very surprised if you made your decisions in life from the perspective of not blindly submiting to big money, but rather to fearless creative expression. What is creativity? Is its the willingness to create something that sustains itself. What can truly sustain itself in this world? The love that challenges the hate that is so dominate in this world? Where does this hate truly come from? Not narcissists, not politicians or corporations, but ideas… all individuals form their identity with experimenting with ideas and some just happen to have a very shocking cost when played with “freely”.

Now go forth and be who you are…. free from all ideas to share the idea that sets us FREE!

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Gabriel Phelps
Gabriel Phelps

Written by Gabriel Phelps

Shock-trooper of the perceptional revolution / Arsonist of ideological narcissism | How can we laugh in times of eerie elitism? / linktr.ee/seviah

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