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Freedom

Freedom is not "doing whatever I want." It is not living according to someone else's lies, not faking your conscience, not serving what you despise. You can be free even in prison — remember Navalny: he was honest with himself to the end and was who he was. There are many other examples: Solzhenitsyn, Brodsky, Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, and many, many others. And what about you? You'll read this, and then you'll go jerk off to Japanese girls pissing on each other, dreaming, "I wish I were there so they could piss on me." Are you free? No, you're addicted. Your dopamine system was destroyed by porn when you were 13. Everyone "knows" that people try BDSM at 16 because "just sex is boring" and you need something "more exciting."