Why You Need To Be Free

The year is 2025 and the world is going through a shared change.

We as a global society are running into new problems that we haven't experienced in our lifetimes.

The financial system is breaking and fiat currencies are approaching the end of their life cycle (they all go to zero eventually).

Artificial intelligence and computing technology is advancing rapidly.

Global birth rates are falling as less and less men and women get together to produce offspring.

If your job can be replaced by a robot or software, it will be.

If you are an employee in one of these replaceable jobs, you need to realise that as tough as it may be, getting fired will be a great thing.

It will give you more time to allocate your labour more productively as an employee or more preferably as an entrepreneur.

Luckily, you are living in a time where the internet has vastly reduced the barrier of entry to become an entrepreneur.

It has never been easier to share your unique perspective and aptitudes with the world, generate attention and profit from that attention.

If you get fired, your previous employer will become more productive and can distribute increased profits to shareholders or employees. They can also spend it growing their business and increasing the quality of their product, which creates a better experience for the consumer.

In the West you have been conditioned to become an employee to serve specific interest groups.

Your surrounding culture and the state controlled education system has been engineered to support this goal, a goal which is not optimal for many people.

Right now, and in the next couple of decades you are going to need to re-orient your life in order to adapt to this rapid change.

Maximising and prioritising personal freedom, de-risking and creating optionality in your life, is now vitally more important than the majority realise.

A significant number of people tend to outsource their critical thinking to other people and state interests. This creates a sense of comfort in their lives, but I would argue that it is a failure to address reality as it is, which leads to a negative long-term outcome for everyone that chooses that path.

If you are in the small percentage of people who embrace independent thinking or would like to join this group, you can use this attribute to your advantage by developing a macro thesis relating to the state of the world and its future trajectory, then take appropriate action to safeguard your future.

The more personal freedom you have in your life, the easier it will be to navigate the world and become future proof.

Increased choice equals increased freedom and you are going to need it.

You will be able to re-orient your life in any direction at any time, and it buys the time you need to experiment with entrepreneurship and acquire the requisite failures needed to succeed if you choose that path.

You will be more free to allocate your surplus capital effectively.

You will benefit from increased personal freedom in your day to day life, whilst enjoying life in your optimal geographical location.

If you see this as a worthy goal, you can create a holistic framework for this pursuit of personal freedom to serve as a personal constitution.

Your strategy will evolve and improve as your mind grapples with it, and your experience through action informs it.

The Elements

The combination of the following elements will give you the best chance to increase your personal freedom, have full control of your life and reverse psychic entropy.

To create a life that prioritises purpose, meaning and mastery.

• Entrepreneurship - Be useful. Build an audience to generate attention and monetise it through products or services. You can now do this for free or very low cost by utilising the internet and adopting the one-person business model. Build new skills and utilise existing skills.

• Investing - Grow and protect your wealth. First develop a foundational economic understanding of the world as it exists in reality (not in politicians reality). Then use your understanding to develop a macro thesis and invest your capital effectively. Remember, that It is the goal of the state to make sure that you do not understand how to do this effectively.

• Freedom in the physical world - Choose a geographical location where its ruling state applies the least amount of unprovoked coercion, violence and extortion to your life. This will allow your freedom of thought to flourish in a productive manner.

• Freedom in the psychological world - Set clear goals and develop a vision for the life you want. As a detractor, create an anti-vision of the life you do not want. Setting goals and working towards them is the single most important thing that you can do to reverse unavoidable psychic entropy. You are utilising your freedom of thought to eliminate unnecessary anxiety from your life. Distractions that inhibit progress will disappear from your life as your mind re-orients itself to serve your vision.

The benefits of taking this path and combining these elements will be psychological, spiritual, financial and physical.

Add or subtract from these principles as you choose, but they can be used as a solid foundation.

The Morality and Ethics of Personal Freedom

There is also a deeper issue that is generally not given much thought by people in the West.

This is the concept of morality and ethics and the individual values that are derived from grappling with these concepts.

If you hold a particular value, and the society that surrounds you has crossed an ethical line in the sand that goes against your value, this is a serious problem.

It reflects the dominant morality of the society that surrounds you.

It may affect you directly or indirectly but it will most likely enter your conscious thought regardless.

The effect can be immensely destructive to your personal wellbeing, and history suggests that you will be in the minority affected.

Re-locating to a country that aligns more with your personal ethics, will increase your freedom in the physical world and will allow your freedom of thought to flourish.

This re-locating process will give you more mental bandwidth to work towards your goals more effectively.

Do not underestimate the power of changing your environment.

Increase your freedom from state intervention in your life and your life will improve, whether you currently realise it or not.

Of course, there will be tradeoffs as no country is perfect.

I would suggest optimising for the most freedom in your day to day living, as how you feel at any given moment during the day is the most important consideration.

I personally chose the beautiful country of Thailand to base myself for the time being. The improvement to all aspects of my life has been monumental.

I will briefly discuss the anatomy of the state, as it is relevant.

The use of coercion, violence and extortion as antagonistic forces are inherent in the constitution of the state.

It is how they maintain their existence and power by being the best at executing these acts. They consequently hold a monopoly on power and control.

I personally do not believe in the moral justification of unprovoked violence, coercion and extortion directed towards any individual, perpetrated by another.

So I want to avoid it happening to me.

As a matter of ethics; in my opinion the state in its existence could only ethically exist to protect a sovereign individual against coercion, violence and extortion.

Hypothetically, to be ethical in a practical sense, the state would only exist to monitor a police force and court system that would protect the individual against coercion within the country, and also a military to protect from coercion outside of the country.

That is it.

The state could not ethically be involved in anything else.

Of course as we have witnessed throughout history they usually end up being the unprovoked perpetrators of these acts for a variety of reasons.

A dilemma then arises; can a coercive state be trusted to carry out these protective functions of society ethically?

Perhaps a free, voluntary society would have better outcomes.

If you reduce the level of unprovoked coercion, violence and extortion directed towards yourself, you will live a life of increased freedom.

Crazy right?

The problem is that many people you are surrounded by support these unethical acts being perpetrated against you.

It is the unfortunate truth and you need to realise this.

The intricacies of what constitutes good and evil are different for each individual of course, and it leads to violent conflict as the records of historical events detail.

Regardless of where you sit on the spectrum of good and evil, a society and geographical location that allows you more personal freedom will provide you more opportunities.

Even if it may be uncomfortable for you, depending on the type of person you are.

Most people prefer outsourcing their risk/benefit analysis to the state.

I much prefer to do my own, as it suits my personality type.

In my life, I have decided to actively reduce the impact of these destructive forces and create more personal freedom for myself.

The benefits have been financial, psychological, spiritual and physical.

Not in a small way but in a hugely transformative, big way.

The path forward in this rapidly changing world lies in high-agency, purpose, critical thinking, deep generalism and polymathic pursuits.

If you can develop a vision for your life around the core concept of 'maximum personal freedom', set requisite goals and take decisive action, your life will be better for it.

It won't be easy, but it will be worth it.

You need to open your mind up enough to spot opportunities that will allow you to progress.

You need access to the resources that will allow you to capitalise on these opportunities.

You need the right amount of agency to act without permission, and the belief that you can solve the problems you currently face.

Thank-you for reading.

I hope this letter provided you with some food for thought.

-Shernon

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