The Sovereign's Path - From slavery to sovereignty
"No one has the right to stop you. No one has the duty to ask permission to live."
If you are here, it means something inside you has already started moving.
Perhaps you don't know yet what Personal Sovereignty is. Perhaps the word "sovereign" makes you think of kings, queens, thrones and crowns. But the Sovereignty we speak of is something else.
No one gave you the right to breathe. No one gave you the right to think. No one gave you the right to exist. These rights are yours from birth. They are not privileges. They are your nature.
Yet, someone taught us to forget it.
They taught us to obey. They taught us to delegate. They taught us to be afraid. They taught us that someone else knows better than us what is right for our life.
This course serves to unlearn all this.
We do not promise you prepackaged answers. We do not ask you to believe in anything. We do not ask you to follow a leader. We only ask you to think with your own head.
It will not be easy. It will not be immediate. The system has trained you for years to think like a slave. Unlearning takes time, effort, courage.
But it is the only way to stop being a zombie. And return to being a human being.
Inside you there are two voices. You hear them every day, even if you have never noticed.
The voice of the system.
It is the voice that says:
It is not an evil voice. It is a trained voice. It is the result of years of education in obedience.
The voice of your conscience.
It is the voice that says:
It is the voice that the system has tried to extinguish, but that has never died.
In every situation, these two voices speak. The course will teach you to listen to both, and to choose consciously.
Three kids between 12 and 14 years old set up a stall to sell fresh lemonade and raise money for an old moped. A passerby reports them. The local police intervene. The kids are warned and must dismantle everything.
Let us stop for a moment on this last point: public land.
In a Republic, if you have to pay for public land, it means that land is not public. It is private. It belongs to the municipality. It is not Res Publica, as the Romans said, as they taught you in school, as all the media repeat every day, as it is written in our Constitutional Charter. It is Res Privata. The territory does not belong to the people. It belongs to the politicians and bureaucrats who administer it like a fiefdom.
Res Publica means PUBLIC THING, owned by every single Italian citizen. By "THING" we mean all Italian territory including everything above it and everything below it.
The school had taught the three kids that they lived in the freest country in the world. But it was not true. The school lied.
The passerby who reported them is not a responsible citizen: he is a servant of the system. He saw three kids doing something useful and instead of helping them or leaving them alone, he called the authorities.
The Mayor and the Municipal Police applied the law: they applied a series of tyrannical rules. They obeyed tyranny, humiliating and mortifying those three kids and the whole community.
The three kids learned the wrong lesson: that they are not free. That to do anything you need a permit. That their dream is worth less than a piece of paper. Those three kids understood that the best thing they can do when they grow up if they want to survive is to emigrate in search of a place where no one prevents them from working.
Those kids were not criminals. They were sovereigns being born. They had a project, they had organized themselves, they were acting. They did not ask for permission. They did not wait for authorization. It was natural for them to do it.
Stopped by a passerby who, instead of admiring their courage and initiative, felt disturbed. Stopped by a Mayor who, instead of defending their initiative, chose to obey the complaint of an adult and the tyranny that placed him as Mayor.
When the citizen is Sovereign, no one has the right to prevent them from carrying out the activity they want. No one has the duty to ask permission to realize their projects. The laws that prevent it are tyrannical laws.
It does not matter if they are centuries old or written yesterday. It does not matter if they were made by a king or a parliament. If a law prevents you from living, having a home, working, creating, expressing yourself, that law is tyranny.
And those who apply it without asking questions are servants of tyranny. They are vassals of the tyrant. In the feudal system, the vassal was the one who swore loyalty to the tyrant and executed their orders without discussion in exchange for privileges, a fiefdom to administer and immunity. Today the vassals are the mayors, the traffic police, the bureaucrats who apply unjust laws without asking if they are just. They are not servants of the people. They are servants of power.
Now let us do an exercise in imagination. Not science fiction, but political planning.
Why?
In the Community of Sovereigns, the right to do is original. It is not asked. It is exercised. A child who wants to sell lemonade is not a criminal. They are a citizen learning to create. The Community encourages them, perhaps teaches them how to do it, but does not punish them.
In the Community of Sovereigns there is no Mayor. There is no police force that defends the exclusive interests of the tyrant of the moment. There is a community of equals, where decisions are made together. And no one has the power to prevent another from living.
In the Community of Sovereigns, every citizen has a guaranteed income from birth. The three kids would not have needed to sell lemonade to buy a moped. They would already have had the means to realize their projects. And if they had wanted to sell lemonade for fun, they could have done it freely.
The passerby would not have reported them. They would have smiled. They would have bought a glass of lemonade. They would have encouraged the kids. Because in a community of sovereigns, initiative is a value, not a threat.
To be free and sovereign, four things are needed:
This course will teach you to recognize them, to demand them, to build them.
Goal: Take a first, concrete step towards personal freedom.
When there is a problem in your neighborhood, what do you do?
If an important person tells you: "You can't", what do you answer?
When you have to make an important decision, what do you do?
What do you think about fear?
If everyone says something is right, but you feel it is not, what do you do?
Did you do the exercise? Tell how you felt in the Community Blog.
