Think For Yourself
The Imperadox"Think for yourself" is an ironic imperative. Just be yourself. Who are they to say who you are? There are marketers and influencers who will stop at nothing to tell you who to be and what to think. Who are they to tell you who to be and what to think? You decide who you are for yourself. Think for yourself! Paradoxical as it may be to demand disobedience, ask your own questions, do your own research, form your own opinions, come to your own conclusions and choose your own destiny. Don’t accept anything at face value. You are more valuable as an individual independent thinker than as a blind follower. If you don’t hold with Empowerment’s principles, fine. don’t consider yourself part of it. Do your own thing. Take what you like, change what you don’t. Being yourself is the application of critical thought to anything that reflects your self image. These things can be anything from clothing, to behavior, creations and emotions- anything that will communicate your values and opinions to other people. By doing this you can give an accurate picture to yourself and those around you. Being yourself allows you to reflect on your own aesthetics and provides ample justification for a diverse set of personalities, each reflected in an equally diverse presentation of these characters. This philosophy is in direct opposition to advertising. Advertising tries to influence who people are by telling them what they should wear, think, and act in order to be happy. Who Are You?Who are you is the most important question you can ever ask yourself. It is deceptively simple, and there is no wrong answer, but there are better answers than some. If you just reply with your name, you have not answered the question, because then you are saying that you still don't know who that name belongs to. Who you are is what you live for, it is what you believe to be most important about you. It is your purpose. It could be your job, it could be your hobby, it could be the books you love. The important part to remember is that it should be something that you have considered, the answer needs to be more than just a label someone stuck on you. If it is not your answer, then it is theirs. Who you are may not be original, but that does not matter. You may look the same and dress the same as hundreds of other people, it is the thought that counts. If you put consideration into what you do, into who you are, it does not matter if that someone turns out to be like many others, what matters is that you were the one who figured it out, and you didn't just take what someone else gave you and slapped it on yourself and said, "Yes, this is good enough, this will do."
IndividualismIn dealing with larger-than-life ideas, it becomes equally important to empower oneself as an individual with commensurate vigor and independence. To assert ones' own autonomy is of the greatest importance before one immerses oneself in the tides of historic forces and artificial conceptions of the world lest one lose oneself in the tumult and find oneself a pawn to ideas beyond one's control.
"I say: liberate yourself as far as you can, and you have done your part; for it is not given to every one to break through all limits, or, more expressively, not to everyone is that a limit which is a limit for the rest. Consequently, do not tire yourself with toiling at the limits of others; enough if you tear down yours... He who overturns one of his limits may have shown others the way and the means; the overturning of their limits remains their affair."
Stirner's political doctrine repudiates revolution in the traditional sense, and ridicules social movements aimed at overturning the state as tacitly statist (i.e., aimed at the establishment of a new state thereafter), putting forth instead a unique model of self-empowerment and social change through "union activism"
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"You don't need anyone to give you an identity because you already have one."
—Sean Kennedy
“A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.”
—Seneca
“It is better to be hated for what one is, then to be loved for what one is not.”
—Andrew Gide
“In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.”
—Harriet Braiker
“If you don’t like what someone is doing, do something else.”
—Roto
“If we see farther, it is because we stand on the shoulders of giants.”
—Newton, quoting Didacus Stella
“A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.” [Lat., Parvus pumilio, licet in monte constiterit; colossus magnitudinem suam servabit, etiam si steterit in puteo.]
—Seneca
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
—Abraham Lincoln
"Men must attempt to develop in themselves and their children liberation from the sense of self ...men must be free from boundries, patterns and consistences in order to be free to think, feel and create in new ways"
—Luke Rhinehart, "The Diceman" 1971
"Why don't you judge for yourselves what is right?"
-Gopsel of Luke 12:57
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Minions
audience posted by Agent Pugsly Sat, 2008-06-21 15:48Groups: You Decide Your Level of Involvement, Start Simple and Progress Rapidly, Viralink Industries, Think For Yourself, Repetitive Task Work, Mindfulness, Leadership, Group Organizing, Everyone Can Do Something, Consumerism, Collective Effervescence, Christian Conservationism, Apathy, Activism
Some people prefer to be in a position of non-responsibility for projects and missions going on, but still wish to participate in them productively. Sometimes a person will come to the realization that they don't have the experience to work as a peer with a person or group; sometimes an individual will crave being out of the limelights, or sometimes a person will be in so much social and/or material debt that they feel the need to preform services in order to make good on this debt (perceived or not).
There is nothing wrong with being a minion. Minions are the number one source of delegation for a project leader, usually. Most minions, especially empowered ones, will always critically analyze the things they are asked to do. As long as there is no moral interference a minion will usually preform a delegated task. The difference between a minion and a group member is realiability. Minions can be counted on to do what they agree to do just as much as a project leader, they just end up doing more support roles. Sure, speaking on stage at a confrence requires a skill but so does the tedious work of putting up and tearing down said stage.
The difference between a minion and an employee is idealism, usually. An employee will complete requested tasks because it means financial compensation for themselves. A minion generally chooses to preform tasks in order to see a project or idea further, even if they don't feel responsible for that project or don't feel competent to direct the operation in any way.
Sometimes, rarely, a person will take minion status entirely out of schedule limitations. If someone misses meetings most of the time due to schedule constraints but still show up to events and preform assistance role tasks in order to remove burden from active project coordinators they are temporarily taking the role of minion.
Volentary participation in this kind of role is called being a minion. If it's invollentary, it's called slavery.
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