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and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche
 and you must drive as far as your mind will take you with achievement as the goal of your road-that the man who has no purpose is a machine that coasts downhill at the mercy of any boulder to crash in the first chance ditch that the man who stifles his mind is a stalled machine slowly going to rust that the man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap and the man who makes another man his goal is a hitchhiker no driver should ever pick up-that your work is the purpose of your life and you must speed past any killer who assumes the right to stop you that any value you might find outside your work any other loyalty or love can be only travelers you choose to share your journey and must be travelers going on their own power in the same direction.



 it has to be earned-that of any achievements open to you the one that makes all others possible is the creation of your own character-that your character your actions your desires your emotions are the products of the premises held by your mind-that as man must produce the physical values he needs to sustain his life so he must acquire the values of character that make his life worth sustaining-that as man is a being of self-made wealth so he is a being of self-made soul-that to live requires a sense of self-value but man who has no automatic values has no automatic sense of self-esteem and must earn it by shaping his soul in the image of his moral ideal in the image of Man the rational being he is born able to create but must create by choice-that the first precondition of self-esteem is that radiant selfishness of soul which desires the best in all things in values of matter and spirit a soul that seeks above all else to achieve its own moral perfection valuing nothing higher than itself-and that the proof of an achieved self-esteem is your soul's shudder of contempt and rebellion against the role of a sacrificial animal against the vile impertinence of any creed that proposes to immolate the irreplaceable value which is your consciousness and the incomparable glory which is your existence to the blind evasions and the stagnant decay of others.



 betrayed corrupted yet were unable fully to destroy and are now hiding as your guilty secret spending your life in apologies to every professional cannibal lest it be discovered that somewhere within you you still long to say what I am now saying to the hearing of the whole of mankind: I am proud of my own value and of the fact that I wish to live.



 but it is a wish one must learn to deserve. His own happiness is man's only moral purpose but only his own virtue can achieve it. Virtue is not an end in itself. Virtue is not its own reward or sacrificial fodder for the reward of evil. Life is the reward of virtue-and happiness is the goal and the reward of life.



 as signs of its welfare or injury as a barometer of its basic alternative life or death so your consciousness has two fundamental emotions joy and suffering in answer to the same alternative. Your emotions are estimates of that which furthers your life or threatens it lightning calculators giving you a sum of your profit or loss. You have no choice about your capacity to feel that something is good for you or evil but what you will consider good or evil what will give you joy or pain what you will love or hate desire or fear depends on your standard of value. Emotions are inherent in your nature but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions it will clog your motor corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you the driver have corrupted.



 for a fortune or a love you don't deserve for a loophole in the law of causality for an A that becomes non-A at your whim if you desire the opposite of existence-you will reach it. Do not cry when you reach it that life is frustration and that happiness is impossible to man; check your fuel: it brought you where you wanted to go.



 not the joy of escaping from your mind but of using your mind's fullest power not the joy of faking reality but of achieving values that are real not the joy of a drunkard but of a producer. Happiness is possible only to a rational man the man who desires nothing but rational goals seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.



 but by my own effort so I do not seek to derive my happiness from the injury or the favor of others but earn it by my own achievement. Just as I do not consider the pleasure of others as the goal of my life so I do not consider my pleasure as the goal of the lives of others. Just as there are no contradictions in my values and no conflicts among my desires-so there are no victims and no conflicts of interest among rational men men who do not desire the unearned and do not view one another with a cannibal's lust men who neither make sacrifice nor accept them.



 is the trader. We who live by values not by loot are traders both in matter and in spirit. A trader is a man who earns what he gets and does not give or take the undeserved. A trader does not ask to be paid for his failures nor does he ask to be loved for his flaws. A trader does not squander his body as fodder or his soul as alms. Just as he does not give his work except in trade for material values so he does not give the values of his spirit-his love his friendship his esteem-except in payment and in trade for human virtues in payment for his own selfish pleasure which he receives from men he can respect. The mystic parasites who have throughout the ages reviled the traders and held them in contempt while honoring the beggars and the looters have known the secret motive of their sneers: a trader is the entity they dread-a man of justice.



 when they see that my interest coincides with theirs. When they don't I enter no relationship; I let dissenters go their way and I do not swerve from mine. I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs. I have nothing to gain from fools or cowards; I have no benefits to seek from human vices: from stupidity dishonesty or fear. The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right he will learn; if I am wrong I will; one of us will win but both will profit.



 the act that no man may commit against others and no man may sanction or forgive. So long as men desire to live together no man may initiate-do you hear me? no man may start-the use of physical force against others.



 is like forcing him to act against his own sight. Whoever to whatever purpose or extent initiates the use of force is a killer acting on the premise of death in a manner wider than murder: the premise of destroying man's capacity to live.



 the only means of judging right and wrong: the mind.



 with terror in place of proof and death as the final argument-is to attempt to exist in defiance of reality. Reality demands of man that he act for his own rational interest; your gun demands of him that he act against it. Reality threatens man with death if he does not act on his rational judgment: you threaten him with death if he does. You place him into a world where the price of his life is the surrender of all the virtues required by life-and death by a process of gradual destruction is all that you and your system will achieve when death is made to be the ruling power the winning argument in a society of men.



' the meaning of that ultimatum is: 'Your mind or your life'-and neither is possible to man without the other.



 I answer him-by force.



 destruction the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own. He uses force to seize a value; I use it only to destroy destruction. A holdup man seeks to gain wealth by killing me; I do not grow richer by killing a holdup man. I seek no values by means of evil nor do I surrender my values to evil.



 it Will be on our moral terms. Our terms and our motive power are the antithesis of yours. You have been using fear as your weapon and have been bringing death to man as his punishment for rejecting your morality. We offer him life as his reward for accepting ours.



' light is not 'the absence of darkness' an entity is not 'the absence of a nonentity.' Building is not done by abstaining from demolition; centuries of sitting and waiting in such abstinence will not raise one single girder for you to abstain from demolishing-and now you can no longer say to me the builder: 'Produce and feed us in exchange for our not destroying your production.' I am answering in the name of all your victims: Perish with and in your own void. Existence is not a negation of negatives. Evil not value is an absence and a negation evil is impotent and has no power but that which we let it extort from us. Perish because we have learned that a zero cannot hold a mortgage over life.







 you who claim that fear and joy are incentives of equal power-and secretly add that fear is the more 'practical'-you do not wish to live and only fear of death still holds you to the existence you have damned. You dart in panic through the trap of your days looking for the exit you have closed running from a pursuer you dare not name to a terror you dare not acknowledge and the greater your terror the greater your dread of the only act that could save you: thinking. The purpose of your struggle is not to know not to grasp or name or hear the thing. I shall now state to your hearing: that yours is the Morality of Death.



 and you have to keep running since there is no escape from the pursuer who is out to destroy you or from the knowledge that that pursuer is yourself. Stop running for once-there is no place to run-stand naked as you dread to stand but as I see you and take a look at what you dared to call a moral code.



 means and end. Your code begins by damning man as evil then demands that he practice a good which it defines as impossible for him to practice. It demands as his first proof of virtue that he accept his own depravity without proof. It demands that he start not with a standard of value but with a standard of evil which is himself by means of which he is then to define the good: the good is that which he is not.



 the good is not for him to understand his duty is to crawl through years of penance atoning for the guilt of his existence to any stray collector of unintelligible debts his only concept of a value is a zero: the good is that which is non-man.







 no power to change it; if he has no will he can be neither good nor evil; a robot is amoral. To hold as man's sin a fact not open to his choice is a mockery of morality. To hold man's nature as his sin is a mockery of nature. To punish him for a crime he committed before he was born is a mockery of justice. To hold him guilty in a matter where no innocence exists is a mockery of reason. To destroy morality nature justice and reason by means of a single concept is a feat of evil hardly to be matched. Yet that is the root of your code.



 to bear responsibility and pay for the game but the decision is weighted in favor of a tendency that he had no power to escape. If the tendency is of his choice he cannot possess it at birth; if it is not of his choice his will is not free.



 creativeness; joy-all the cardinal values of his existence. It is not his vices that their myth of man's fall is designed to explain and condemn it is not his errors that they hold as his guilt but the essence of his nature as man. Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden who existed without mind without values without labor without love-he was not man.



 was that he gained the virtues required to live. These virtues by their standard are his Sin. His evil they charge is that he's man. His guilt they charge is that he lives.



 they do not preach that man is evil the evil is only that alien object: his body. No they say they do not wish to kill him they only wish to make him lose his body. They seek to help him they say against his pain-and they point at the torture rack to which they've tied him the rack with two wheels that pull him in opposite directions the rack of the doctrine that splits his soul and body.



 two antagonists of opposite natures contradictory claims incompatible needs that to benefit one is to injure the other that his soul belongs to a supernatural realm but his body is an evil prison holding it in bondage to this earth-and that the good is to defeat his body to undermine it by years of patient struggle digging his way to that gorgeous jail-break which leads into the freedom of the grave.



 a soul without a body is a ghost-yet such is their image of man's nature: the battleground of a struggle between a corpse and a ghost a corpse endowed with some evil volition of its own and a ghost endowed with the knowledge that everything known to man is nonexistent that only the unknowable exists.







 your teachers offer him the help of a morality that proclaims that he'll find no solution and must seek no fulfillment on earth. Real existence they tell him is that which he cannot perceive true consciousness is the faculty of perceiving the non-existent-and if he is unable to understand it that is the proof that his existence is evil and his consciousness impotent.



 whom you call the spiritualists and the materialists those who believe in consciousness without existence and those who believe in existence without consciousness. Both demand the surrender of your mind one to their revelation the other to their reflexes. No matter how loudly they posture in the roles of irreconcilable antagonists their moral codes are alike and so are their aims: in matter-the enslavement of man's body in spirit-the destruction of his mind.



 is God a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive-a definition that invalidates man's consciousness and nullifies his concepts of existence. The good say the mystics of muscle is Society-a thing which they define as an organism that possesses no physical form a super-being embodied in no one in particular and everyone in general except yourself. Man's mind say the mystics of spirit must be subordinated to the will of God. Man's mind say the mystics of muscle must be subordinated to the will of Society. Man's standard of value say the mystics of spirit is the pleasure 0f God whose standards are beyond man's power of comprehension and must be accepted on faith. Man's standard of value say the mystics of muscle is the pleasure of Society whose standards are beyond man's right of judgment and must be obeyed as a primary absolute. The purpose of man's life say both is to become an abject zombie who serves a purpose he does not know for reasons he is not to question. His reward say the mystics of spirit will be given to him beyond the grave. His reward say the mystics of muscle will be given on earth-to his great-grandchildren.



 renounce himself surrender; man's good is to negate the life he lives. Sacrifice-cry both-is the essence of morality the highest virtue within man's reach.



 not man the killer I am speaking at the deathbed of your mind at the brink of that darkness in which you're drowning and if there still remains within you the power to struggle to hold on to those fading sparks which had been yourself-use it now. The word that has destroyed you is 'sacrifice.' Use the last of your strength to understand its meaning. You're still alive. You have a chance.



 but of the good for the sake of the evil. 'Sacrifice' is the surrender of that which you value in favor of that which you don't.



 it is. If you achieve the career you wanted after years of struggle it is not a sacrifice; if you then renounce it for the sake of a rival it is. If you own a bottle of milk and gave it to your starving child it is not a sacrifice; if you give it to your neighbor's child and let your own die it is.



 it is. If you give your friend a sum you can afford it is not a sacrifice; if you give him money at the cost of your own discomfort it is only a partial virtue according to this sort of moral standard; if you give him money at the cost of disaster to yourself that is the virtue of sacrifice in full.



 which is your love. If you devote your life to random strangers it is an act of greater virtue. If you devote your life to serving men you hate-that is the greatest of the virtues you can practice.



 no praise no love no admiration no self-esteem not even the pride of being virtuous; the faintest trace of any gain dilutes your virtue. If you pursue a course of action that does not taint your life by any joy that brings you no value in matter no value in spirit no gain no profit no reward-if you achieve this state of total zero you have achieved the ideal of moral perfection.



 it is. You cannot achieve it so long as you live but the value of your life and of your person is gauged by how closely you succeed in approaching that ideal zero which is death.



 as a passionless blank as a vegetable seeking to be eaten with no values to reject and no wishes to renounce you will not win the crown of sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to renounce the unwanted. It is not a sacrifice. It is not a sacrifice to give your life for others if death is your personal desire. To achieve the virtue of sacrifice you must want to live you must love it you must burn with passion for this earth and for all the splendor it can give you-you must feel the twist of every knife as it slashes your desires away from your reach and drains your love out of your body It is not mere death that the morality of sacrifice holds out to you as an ideal but death by slow torture.







 it is not a sacrifice: she values the child higher than the hat; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of mother whose higher value is the hat who would prefer her child to starve and feeds him only from a sense of duty. If a man dies fighting for his own freedom it is not a sacrifice: he is not willing to live as a slave; but it is a sacrifice to the kind of man who's willing. If a man refuses to sell his convictions it is not a sacrifice unless he is the sort of man who has no convictions.



 no judgment-those whose desires are irrational whims blindly conceived and lightly surrendered. For a man of moral stature whose desires are born of rational values sacrifice is the surrender of the right to the wrong of the good to the evil.



 which they must be taught to sacrifice. By his own confession it is impotent to teach men to be good and can only subject them to constant punishment.



 that it's only material values that your morality requires you to sacrifice? And what do you think are material values? Matter has no value except as a means for the satisfaction of human desires. Matter is only a tool of human values. To what service are you asked to give the material tools your virtue has produced? To the service of that which you regard as evil: to a principle you do not share to a person you do not respect to the achievement of a purpose opposed to your own-else your gift is not a sacrifice.



 whose actions contradict his convictions is a cheap little hypocrite-yet that is the man who obeys your morality and divorces his values from matter. The man who loves one woman but sleeps with another-the man who admires the talent of a worker but hires another-the man who considers one cause to be just but donates his money to the support of another-the man who holds high standards of craftsmanship but devotes his effort to the production of trash-these are the men who have renounced matter the men who believe that the values of their spirit cannot be brought into material reality.







 serve that which you do not admire submit to that which you consider evil-surrender the world to the values of others deny reject renounce your self. Your self is your mind; renounce it and you become a chunk of meat ready for any cannibal to swallow.



 whether they demand it for the sake of your soul or of your body whether they promise you another life in heaven or a full stomach on this earth. Those who start by saying: 'It is selfish to pursue your own wishes you must sacrifice them to the wishes of others'-end up by saying: 'It is selfish to uphold your convictions you must sacrifice them to the convictions of others.



 your reason your standard of truth-in favor of becoming a prostitute whose standard is the greatest good for the greatest number.



 whatever you feel they feel they wish or whatever you feel they ought to feel. 'The good of others' is a magic formula that transforms anything into gold a formula to be recited as a guarantee of moral glory and as a fumigator for any action even the slaughter of a continent. Your standard of virtue is not an object not an act not a principle but an intention. You need no proof no reasons no success you need not achieve in fact the good of others-all you need to know is that your motive was the good of others not your own. Your only definition of the good is a negation: the good is the 'non-good for me.'



 objective moral values and scorns the conditional the relative and the subjective-your code hands out as its version of the absolute the following rule of moral conduct: If you wish it it's evil; if others wish it it's good; if the motive of your action is your welfare don't do it; if the motive is the welfare of others then anything goes.



 so it splits mankind into two enemy camps: one is you the other is all the rest of humanity. You are the only outcast who has no right to wish to live. You are the only servant the rest are the masters you are the only giver the rest are the takers you are the eternal debtor the rest are the creditors never to be paid off. You must not question their right to your sacrifice or the nature of their wishes and their needs: their right is conferred upon them by a negative by the fact that they are 'non-you.'



 it says that you must serve the happiness of others the only way to achieve your joy is to give it up to others the only way to achieve your prosperity is to surrender your wealth to others the only way to protect your life is to protect all men except yourself-and if you find no joy in this procedure it is your own fault and the proof of your evil; if you were good you wou User loses posting privileges for 6 hours."orange jucheorange juche