voluntaryistpete

I was born into a generally highly political, religious, and corporal punishment oriented cold war era Chicago suburb. I quickly learned to minimize punishment by conforming and keeping Socratic questions to myself. The indoctrinators repeatedly tried to dye me in their sheeple wool until I couldn't take it anymore. At age 18 I physically -- but not mentally -- escaped for about five years by hitch-hiking the U.S., doing day labor and odd jobs, living in hippie communes, etc. From 1975 to 2010 I was back in the sheeple the ratrace as a breadwinner because I had children to support. In 2010 I resumed my pre-'75 cognitive dissonance such as "Why do social class, economics, religion, and history / current events make no sense?" Life has always been a gigantic puzzle to me, and only recently did I find the missing puzzle piece to be social engineering. Now that it all makes sense, I'm so far mentally about 90% and physically about 60% unsheeple, and on the never-ending journey to improve both conditions.