That time of year, where one can celebrate if you will an early Saturday or Sunday morning with bit of coffee, gin and chocolate...

That time of year, where one can celebrate if you will an early Saturday or Sunday morning with bit of Utah coffee (Vintage, Black Rifle Coffee Company), Vermont barrel aged gin (Tomcat, Caledonia Distillery) and Pennsylvania chocolate (Hershey)...

My apologies, but I will no longer refer to such fine products as American, rather by region, state, county, city, better still by land or family.

Any form of nationalism or patriotism have proven time and time again to presume my coerced participation therefore presume to confiscate my property, limit my liberty even terminate my life if so covetously mandated. If you are delicately offended by this then "grow up!"

Individualism’s Pledge of Allegiance (per my next book)

 

Private property my country, family and friends my countrymen, consequently the sweaty, dirty, bloody, long worn shirt-off-back my flag for upon the rustic post at edge of field hangs that banner `neath my old hat, however tattered, patched, frayed, stained, worked thus ragged while individually, agreeably therefore mutually, consensually bought and bartered... I pledge allegiance to nothing else and to no other!

 

Pledges and allegiances to banners and flags, oaths and vows to empires and nations, to monarchies and governments, to parliaments and congresses, to kings, prime ministers and presidents serve only the interests of the aforementioned, and to be sure the subject and citizen, that is, the individual to fully bear the sacrifice of his/her life, health, liberty, privacy, property, possession, profession, pursuit, purpose, preference, prerogative even propensity as well family, friends, and anything or anyone else held personally dear. Any promises by kings, princes, politicians or bureaucrats to serve the subject or citizen’s wellbeing are Orwellian doublespeak for their intent to presumptuously, impatiently rule therefore expecting the people’s unquestionable obedience.

 

"Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces."

 

Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563)

 

These despots along with crony advisors, experts, professors, doctors, journalists, commentators then priests, pastors, various community leaders even artists, musicians, actors like past sages, magicians, jesters, town criers and more, have so cleverly spun the concept of honor to equate to sacrifice as previously defined, yet in like manner sacrificially honor not the people. Is it not high time to reciprocally however rightfully honor not those holding public offices, thereby logically thus ethically undermining their presumption and arrogance, unofficially yet effectively rescinding their endowment and power, and in so doing to live free, to think, speak and act liberated fully bearing one’s own responsibility and risk.