node created 2019/09/29
Everyone has an internal eye. It always watching. It has been slowly constructed by society at large and by your friends and family, and it checks you for unacceptable behaviour. If you have had it around for long enough, you actually start to believe that the eye is you, and that youā€™re ā€œbeing reasonableā€ or some other rationalization.

But the eye isnā€™t you at all. It is a prison, and you have justified its existence by obeying it. Itā€™s strong because you let it be strong.

But the secret, the part thatā€™s amazing, is that it canā€™t do anything to stop you, even if it wanted to. Itā€™s an eye. It can only watch. The rest of you is free to act as you wish.