What an excellent essay on the human condition, and the impact of the Prussian educational (indoctrination) model.

I found the first image posted, of the cat with a lion's shadow, contraproductive however. The implication that we are pussycats that think we're lions demonstrates conceit and self-delusion, rather than the reality: we are lions taught we are nothing more than pussycats.

I am very happy you have beat your cancer! I, beyond your personal blessing by being able to live, hopefully with much less medical interference in your quality of life, consider it a great victory for freedom and the fight against propaganda.

Thanks for being you, and living. Had you abandoned us by escaping this vale of wrath and tears early, I would be the poorer.