What is the best way to live freely?

Hmm, we don't know.

Do you have any idea?

We certainly know what freedom is not: we know our freedom can't exist as long as we need other people in order to have it. That is to say, if our happiness relies on other people's deeds or contributions it's not a pure happiness, or at least, it's nothing more than a one-moment, fragile smile.

Happiness should be something a bit more permanent than that. It should be an ever lasting condition, we hope. And in order to reach that condition, we can't lay its foundations over other people's head - Especially not when those people are, mostly, suffering from our unaccommodating desires.

This tiny request has a lot of subsequences, and a great projection on our lives; in order to lessen the damage we cause other human beings and animals through our pursuit after happiness, we are trying to study. Some of us are doing it through researching their own intuitions and dreams, some of us are trying to extend knowledge, technically and mentally.

Some of us tend to do both.

It's a fascinating research, although sometimes it gives us some hard times, when solutions seem to be so far and untouchable… though we can't despair!

this is just too much fun, and notwithstanding the sorrow, the new heights of discoveries give us this little, tiny hope, that motivates to know more. To know better.

We're looking for creative solutions - from here to the moon (not literally, we don't think a spaceship would make a sustainable way of avoiding human suffering and climate change, at least not yet…). We're looking for a magical dust as well as practical skills, suggestions and dreams.

It's all so possible.

there are no limitations or borders, and every idea that doesn't hurt other people is acceptable and possible. Well, it will be possible.

Your thoughts, suggestions, quotes from well-imagined children stories and real or fake news and opinions (what is "real", anyway?) are more than welcome;

we'll be waiting.

"When you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars"

... Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie

A letter to the activist

By P. Michaelly

A red lace was once tied in my shirt.

This is possible, people change. I wouldn't say: "go through a revolution", though, I haven't passed a revolution. I have made a progress.

People, like you, ask me every time when we begin a discussion: "what, don't you care?" / "and if you do care, why don't you do anything?" / "being disconnected - is that a solution?" / "why don't you deal with your problems?"…

My answer is always the same – I don't identify with the institution. I don't identify with the movement. I don't identify with the ideals of the people that join together in order to perform that action. I don't identify with this action. I just don't want to change society. I believe in a different way. …materialism, materialism, monism, positivism and all the isms of this world are old and rusty tools which I don't need or mind anymore. My principle is life…[1] "So is mine!" you'll say to me, and use that as an excuse for explaining your activity – but you are turning in the same carousel of life like everyone. Everyone works like a donkey in order to fuel the illusion of a future that lies on the laurels– you work like a donkey in order to fuel the illusion of changing the world.

You won't change the world.

Not because you're not strong enough – but because the world doesn't want to be different, not now, at least.

Leave the future – right, it's hard, we've been educated differently – put it aside. Look at your present: Is that how you want to live all of your life? Try to forget from the comforting illusion about the future when you try to answer this question. You are waiting for the revolution? Let it be! mine began a long time ago! When you are ready (god, what an endless wait!) I won't mind going with you for a while. But when you stop, I shall continue on my way towards the great and sublime conquest of the nothing! (which is insane in your eyes and in the society's eyes, but is logical in a quite sadden way).

What do you see under the magnifying glass of the present? Do you see the same expectations to this revolution? Is your life improving right now? Or are they hanged on a thin invisible thread of a "possible" future?

But you don't want to build for yourself a better life – you live in this "activism" illusion. Being an activist, "active towards a social change", is like a skill in a boundary. To think about yourself as active – is to see in yourself a more advanced person in relation to others in the evaluation of the need of a social change, and in the answer to the question of how to create it, and to see yourself as one with an ability to lead in a practical way towards the expected change.[2] You want to build another society.

Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society, unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thought… I shall be among them! There is where to act, and I will correct myself now – there is where to live. Every culture leaves margins of which we are able to be accommodated, you and I. We won't seek for the change in the society. And after me, as before me, there will be those saying to their fellows: "So turn to yourselves rather than to your gods and idols. Find what hides within you and bring it to the light; reveal yourselves!" And that's what I'm doing now, my friend. I am. Because every person who, searching his own inwardness, extracts what was mysteriously hidden is a shadow eclipsing any form of society which can exist under the sun!

Do you want another world, honesty? Not only to maintain an eternal-illusion of universe fixing? Change it – your own world. It's very easy. The society which you live in today won't live like you want it to live – just because they don't want it. Find the people who want the world you desire.

They are there, scattered with me in the margins.

Do you want to live a cooperative life? Do you want to live in a society that is based on love?

Don't wait for the red flag that will come and flow and drown every other will. It won't come. Just live it. And by the way, if the external world interests you, know that all societies tremble when the scornful aristocracy of tramps, inaccessible, unique ones, rulers of the ideal and conquerors of the nothing resolutely advance. … "Already the foreboding sky grows dark and silent!"

Forget about activism. Come to me, live with me, love me, share with me. Don't hide behind that red lace, it tells me nothing.

[1] The sections marked in blue are taken from a text by Renzo Novatore, 1920

[2] The sections marked in brown are taken from Roni Armon's book: "Awakening to a Direct Act", in the chapter: "Don't be an activist". The text itself is a translation of an article named "Give Up Activism".