I am so sick of this life. I wish I could ctb. One of the things holding me back is this: America is a insane POS! We have a drooling child molester as pretend president,a dumb whore as VP,a rotten filthy corrupt old mafia hag S speaker. We are printing oceans of money. The govt is at war with the American people. We have this shit critical race theory shoved down our throats,crime increasing,housing going the fuck up,up,up,more third world invaders with their hands out,more stupid wars coming,Biden's top ten cabinet picks all speak Hebrew, don't know if this vax is to help us or kill us.
There's nothing I can do. But still if I ctb I feel like I'm running away.thoughts?
It's not running away. You didn't choose that burden, and this is all too big for any one person to fix on their own.
And the country was abandoned long ago by the politicians and oligarchy, while your "fellow countrymen" sat back and let it happen, despite the warnings for decades, as long as their was "a chicken in every pot..."
Ayn Rand escaped her country, Soviet Russia, to come here in the 20's. She tried to warn America what was happening, but they didn't listen.
"Mr. Rearden," said Francisco, his voice solemnly calm, "if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down on his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?"
"I . . . don't know. What . . . could he do? What would you tell him?"
"To shrug."
(ATLAS SHRUGGED)
Before she wrote that, she wrote her first novel, WE THE LIVING, about Soviet Russia. In that book, her main character/heroine, Kira is trying to escape, but is shot by the border guards. The point was that even though Rand escaped, she was lucky, an exception. The original title was AIR TIGHT, as in such dictatorships create an "air-tight" environment where life becomes impossible.
This led Leonard Peikoff to write later:
" I want to mention first that suicide is sometimes justified, according to Objectivism. Suicide is justified when man's life, owing to circumstances outside of a person's control, is no longer possible; an example might be a person with a painful terminal illness, or a prisoner in a concentration camp who sees no chance of escape. In cases such as these, suicide is not necessarily a philosophic rejection of life or of reality. On the contrary, it may very well be their tragic reaffirmation. Self-destruction in such contexts may amount to the tortured cry: "Man's life means so much to me that I will not settle for anything less. I will not accept a living death as a substitute."
So you have no DUTY, but you do have a choice, which is basically the same choice we all have, when it comes to it: "flight or fight".
If you care enough to fight for your country, that is your right. If you find that you cannot, that it's too big, then that is your right, too.
It depends on your personal context.
