Oct 14, 2025
There are 8 billion people; how can any value be original?
Originality doesn’t mean uniqueness in the universe; it means independence from imitation. If your values were reached by inner verification rather than adoption, they are yours even if someone else happens to share them. A free mind may converge with others but not because it followed them. You cannot escape inherited structures; you can only strip them of authority and use them knowingly. There are no purely your”values only values you are no longer enslaved by. Freedom is not new invention but lucid possession of what once possessed you.
