by Ray Newman, radio and television commentator, attorney, educator, author

Thursday, August 8, 2013

I, MYSELF

We are well on the way to becoming a full-fledged others society.  We have to do what benefits most others, we have to help all others that`are in need, others can tell us what we can and cannot do.  Others tell us what's right and what's wrong.  Others outnumber us and this is a democracy, isn't it?

So, I am hereby setting up the first counter society, a myself society.  I have a right to live for myself, I myself choose what I do and don't do, I can spend all my money on myself if that's what I myself want to do.  I myself am boss over myself.  I myself am free, aren't I? 

Others are thought of as brothers.  Myselfers are thought of as selfish and self-centered.  Understandable.  Now, Democrats are major league others, Republicans are halfway others, Conservatives want less from others.  Libertarians are extreme full blown myselfers.

And the differences between others and myselfers comes into play at the very beginning:  What shall I be?  Others say I have no choice, that decision has been made for me by the others.  According to them, I am just another other.  Myselfers say I myself choose what I myself wish to be.

Are you another other, or are you a myselfer like I, myself?

The answer to that question sets the course of your entire life.

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