Do Not Comply by Will Witt

Author:Will Witt [Witt, Will]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2023-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

THE INDIVIDUAL VERSUS THE COLLECTIVE

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first.

—Jim Morrison

The most common question I am asked, on an almost daily basis, is what is the solution for the problems afflicting our country. The majority of people I talk to don’t believe voting really matters, or they have lost faith completely in our leaders, or their church is now pro-abortion, or everyone around them is brainwashed, and they have no idea what they are supposed to do. They see their country disintegrating morally, culturally, and fundamentally right in front of them, yet they feel powerless to halt the upheaval of the America that once was. They want to partake in some great battle for the heart of their nation, yet they feel nihilistic, and they have no clue where to even begin to fix America. They believe that they are just one person, and what can one person really do against the leviathan of evil we find ourselves up against?

Indeed, it would be silly to believe that one person could single-handedly dismantle an entire system dedicated to destruction. I am not here to provide you with a bloated, untrue message of hope, telling you that alone you can overthrow the oligarchy and achieve a perfect world. That would be a lie, and I will not instill false hope in you. In all honesty, our country balances on the edge of a knife, and the smallest reaction may bring us plummeting down, and one individual, in solitude, will not change that fact or reset the scales. That is just the reality of the situation, so to fix this country, we must look to other solutions that aren’t hinged on a single mortal being the savior.

The silver lining here is that although we often think in terms of large-scale problems we need to fix, the majority of the time it actually comes down our own issues that need to be challenged first. It is very easy to blame everyone around you, or “the system,” or your parents, or ideology, and never actually look inward as an individual and think how can we become the best human imaginable. Many times, a person will give themself an insurmountable mountain to climb, such as stopping world hunger, or defeating climate change, or ending Big Tech censorship, or electing only Republicans to office, and because they understand that they cannot fix these problems on their own, they use it as an excuse to not focus on themselves and their own personal failings because they can always blame the massive struggle for their problems. They choose not to direct their energy toward themselves because that is something they are actually in control of, and that responsibility is hard to bear.

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