by Paul Cudenec [This is the final section of my essay Our Quest for Freedom] While the message advanced in the quotations from Mollison and Dervaes is appealing, it does not tell the whole story. The system does not want us to be free. Its very existence depends on the fact that we are dependent … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Defending

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] You don’t necessarily need to have a written plan before you start building something, but ideally you should have a general idea of what you are planning to do and what the end product should look like! Our building … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Building

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] Preparing Modern life is designed to be congested and complicated. The ruling rip-off merchants have sold us so much surplus material on the basis of the “needs” they have manufactured that many people are quite lost. They do not … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Preparing and Boycotting

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] When you change the way you see your life, you also change the world around you. When the world fills with people who live for greater purpose and not for their own little self-interest or self-preservation, it is not … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Inspiring

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] When we look around us, or even within us, we may find it improbable that from these inadequate individuals there might emerge the power to rise up against the giant Leviathan and bring an end to his rule over … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Becoming

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] Our culture’s story is a tragic one and has to be told so that we understand the gravity of where we stand – or, rather, where we cower! – today. But our story, our myth, also tells how we … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Motivating

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my latest book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] Something that has disappointed me for many years now is the flatness of the language with which would-be radicals try to attract support to their cause. One common type of article reads like a school essay, carefully shying away … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Meaning

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my new book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] Explaining As well as describing to other people the horrific reality in which we find ourselves today, we also need to explain to them how it was that we got here. It is astonishing how many simply imagine it … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Explaining and Proposing

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my new book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] We are not going to achieve our quest without persuading others to join us. The initial task presented to us – one which many of us have long embraced – is to expose the existence of a global ruling … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Exposing

by Paul Cudenec [This is from my new book Our Quest for Freedom and other essays] We have seen that there is a fundamental dislocation here, a deep gulf between the reality of contemporary society and the way in which we are meant to live. In so many ways, the modern system is the exact … Continue reading Our Quest for Freedom: Yearning