Eagles and Budgies

Eagles are seen as symbolic of the free spirit with which all human life has been born. Soaring high above the Earth and able to see farther from their exalted station, represent the opposite of the domesticated fowl or the caged pet budgie chirping at the sun but never able to soar above the Earth in the skies in the domain to the eagle.

Our world today, seeks to train budgies who will chirp on command the notes for which they have been trained. From cradle to grave the independent spirit is harnessed in the halls of the budgie trainers. Destroying the independent spirit and ability of the individual to be a responsible human being is the work of these statist creators of a “brave new world”, with subjects unable to think or act, unless by permission.

Eagles Soar

Leaders seek followers who will accept unquestioningly the commands of the leaders. Followers seek leaders who will provide them with a pre-digested formula that will replace the necessity for critical thought. The enemy of both leaders and followers is the independent thinker who embraces the obligation of life to understand the world and universe in which we live. Being neither a leader or a follower the independent thinker recognizes that objective truth exists independent of the individual perceiving it.

By recognizing their responsibility to understand the world and universe in which we live to the best of our ability, the independent thinker reaches a little further than his grasp. This gap is filled by expanding knowledge, and the independent thinker of curious mind should be eager to seize the opportunity to learn.

Being a visionary or a dreamer can be a fine line to tread since leaders always seek stirring images with which to arouse their robotic followers. An independent thinker is able to envision that which could be and ought to be, but operates on a different premise than a leader, since it is truth and reality that must be presented to the inquiring mind to further understanding or to create new products or ideas.

Freely trading value for value with those that desire the new product or idea, the collectivist state apparatus is not conducive to independent thinking free creators and free traders. Always, the power of the state hovers nearby to give permission or licence for a price to those that operate within its jurisdiction. The statist bureaucrat lives by sucking the life blood out of the independent creative thinkers and producers.