Schools will never teach this, so I’m just going to lay it out on you: You are the owner of yourself. You cannot be made to do anything, ANYTHING, unless you choose to do so. Your brain controls your arms. Your brain controls your legs. They can threaten you, they can yell at you, but YOU OWN YOU.

(Originally this was a reddit post in a subreddit for school kids, /r/SchoolSystemBroke)

Schools like to teach from an early age that a person belongs to society or to the government or to the community or that everyone belongs to everyone else. They do this because they want to make people feel shame for doing something that the school would call “Selfish” or “Greedy”. This is part of their mechanism of control; they make people think that they must obey when a teacher says to do something. This not only makes the life of the teachers and staff easier, but it also wires your brain for obedience when you become an adult. When you leave school, instead of the teachers telling you what to do you’re trained to do what the politicians tell you to do, what the employer tells you to do, what society tells you to do.

But the teacher doesn’t own you. Your parents don’t own you. The politician doesn’t own you. Society doesn’t own you. You own you.

The only way they can make you do something is by convincing you to do it. You are the gatekeeper on your actions. They can point a gun at your head to convince you, they can threaten to strangle a kitty if you don’t comply. Coercion is always an option for them, but ultimately they don’t have the technology yet to strap someone into a machine and bend their arms for them and speak their words for them and make them a slave (and if they had such a machine then why would they bother putting someone in it? Just have the machine do the work for them).

Their brains are not tied to your limbs. Your limbs are attached via neurons to your brain. The only way those limbs move is if you move them.

If they convince you that everyone belongs to everyone else, if they convince you that the “Right thing to do” is to do what they tell you to do, then congratulations: You’ve been played. You won’t have that life you always wanted, you’ll have the life THEY always wanted FOR YOU. You won’t have the job you want, you’ll have the job they want you to have. You won’t have the family that you love, you’ll have the family they would rather you have.

Everything in your life will be perverted if you do what they tell you to do.

Make your own decisions. Live your own life. You have no choice. You belong to you, and if you start serving others and living your life for them, then you chose servitude for yourself.

Be free.