{"id":12752,"date":"2010-07-22T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=12752"},"modified":"2010-07-22T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T02:42:27","slug":"reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-3-0-3-when-you-resolve-never-to-let-other-people-dominate-you-you-come-to-be-indomitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12752\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-3-0-3-when-you-resolve-never-to-let-other-people-dominate-you-you-come-to-be-indomitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons to be cheerful, Part 3.0.3: When you resolve never to let other people dominate you, you come to be indomitable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a lot to take in, so indulge me as we summarize what we&#8217;ve talked about so far:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You are a sovereign soul. Your purposive behavior is exclusively controlled by your self.\n<\/li>\n<li>You cannot be governed. Other people cannot control your behavior, nor you theirs.\n<\/li>\n<li>To the extent that other people &#8212; your religion, the government, your family or friends &#8212; might seem to control you, this is a consequence of your own freely-tendered consent, your own explicit, freely-chosen, on-going cooperation.\n<\/li>\n<li>Because other people&#8217;s seeming control over you originates in your own sovereignty, you can recover your freedom at any time you want, simply by withdrawing your consent.\n<\/li>\n<li>If you have surrendered any of your sovereignty in the past, your life will be better &#8212; for you &#8212; once you have regained full control over yourself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have made the mental effort to recover your sovereignty in full, your life will already be better. This is a profoundly important reason to be cheerful, wouldn&#8217;t you say?<\/p>\n<p>In other essays, I take up the mental, physical and moral benefits of a full commitment to self-adoration, but this is simple enough to see in summary: If you devote your life to doing everything you can think of to make your life better, more perfect &#8212; more perfectly, more abundantly rich in every kind splendor &#8212; your life will be immeasurably improved.<\/p>\n<p>Now reflect that we&#8217;re talking about what might happen if the shit really does hit the fan. If the government of the United States does not collapse under its own vast weight, so much the better. But even if it does, your own unique life will still be better than it might have been had you not made this change, won&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>There is no downside to self-love. You&#8217;ve been poisoned on the idea, for your whole life, by people who know they cannot rule free minds. But just by daring to let your mind run free, by daring to be the uniquely beautiful specimen of humanity you have been all along, your life will be everything you&#8217;ve always known it could be.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the world outside your mind can be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12752\/reasons-to-be-cheerful-part-3-0-3-when-you-resolve-never-to-let-other-people-dominate-you-you-come-to-be-indomitable\/#more-12752\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a lot to take in, so indulge me as we summarize what we&#8217;ve talked about so far: You are a sovereign soul. Your purposive behavior is exclusively controlled by your self. You cannot be governed. Other people cannot control your behavior, nor you theirs. 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I think BloodhoundBlog presents a nice reflection of this argument, a joyous, fearless, unapologetic pursuit of new ideas.Economists have known for a long time that profits are an external measure of the value created by business enterprise. 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I have a lot more to say about the nature of the self, within this series of posts and throughout my writing, but, in a political context, this is the most important fact of your life: You cannot be governed.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Mother&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Mother","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/big-mother\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2755,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2755\/practical-dual-agency-in-real-life-it-is-possible-to-have-a-fiduciary-duty-to-your-sellers-that-you-cannot-get-away-from-that-feels-like-a-complete-betrayal-of-your-buyers-what-then\/","url_meta":{"origin":12752,"position":2},"title":"Practical dual agency in real life: It is possible to have a fiduciary duty to your sellers &#8212; that you cannot get away from &#8212; that feels like a complete betrayal of your buyers. 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