Social
bondage

If I follow the rules of society, it respects me; if I don't follow the rules of society, it insults me tremendously, it hurts me very badly.

 

To really be a free man and to exist in any society is very difficult. And I say it from my own experience. lt is almost impossible to exist because society does not want any free man. The free man is a danger to society's existence. The society likes zombies, machines, robots,  always ready just to fall anywhere into a queue.

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And society pays them well: it gives them respect, it gives them prizes, awards, honors - it has to, this is the trick. It never gives any award to those who are free; it never honors them. How can it honor them? -A religious man is an enemy in an irreligious society. In a world of materialism, a spiritual man is always in difficulty: he does not fit in anywhere.