We weren’t handed a manual at birth on how we should function. In terms of running nations democracy is the way to go. Constitutional republic if you prefer. Yeah, but that’s outside yourself. What if I told you that absolute monarchy is the way to go in terms of how you treat yourself? We all hate it when we’re ordered around by some external entity. Democracy or letting everyone inside of you do what they want will lead you nowhere. It leads to lack of positive external results, and it leads to inability to work or perform anything internally. You will be helpless, unable to move, and you will fail at everything you attempt to do except what takes care of itself because it’s habitual. Being in control of your life might sound like being in control of what goes into your schedule, but it runs deeper than that. It also isn’t limited to not acting out or reacting irrationally when mad. This isn’t about emotional intelligence as well, if there’s such thing in the first place. This is about commanding yourself. Giving yourself an order and following through with it whether you like it or not. Many call it self-discipline. But this is still deeper than just that. Self-discipline is simply controlling yourself. What I’m suggesting here is the opposite. And is also against internal democracy. What I’m suggesting here is letting yourself take control, assume leadership, and become the authoritarian head of an absolute monarchy. Letting yourself rule the rest of you. It’s not that you normally don’t want to listen to the orders you give yourself. It’s that you don’t even try to negotiate with the rest of you that generates impulses you don’t even like, but instead submit to the will of the masses like a helpless slave or minion. Democracy is awesome in the outside world when it comes to how countries should be like. But it is hell if it’s the case internally. The confusion comes from the concept of freedom being a high human value. How can you be free if you are not free to do what you want. So you give the entirety of what’s inside you free reign. You treat your internal people the way you want other people in the external world to treat you. Understand this: The concept of you not being the only thing that exists inside of you is not new and I’m not the first or the only one who’s proposing it. Countless philosophers called your thoughts not you, which suggests that you are not the one thinking those thoughts, which means someone else or other entities are thinking those thoughts that you should just observe passively as they go by without trying to interact with them and sometimes without even trying to shut them up. But you just attend the public live event and listen to whatever everyone is saying without commenting or responding to anything; without trying to control the narrative or direct the conversation elsewhere. This means one thing: You are not the one who is generating those thoughts, not even unconsciously. They are not yours at all in the first place. Which is also alluded to when they speak of the self as an illusion, and that such fact could only be realized by you after you meditate long enough. The point is, if your thoughts or at least the overwhelming majority of them are not yours, are you sure that every impulse or urge you get is yours either? Are you sure that everything you want to do is coming from you and not from the other entities that are not you that biologically normally live inside you? And I’m not talking about ghosts or demons here. In this case democracy here would be letting others control you, instead of giving yourself – the real you here – the full freedom and control over yourself that you think you deserve. In this case it’s dictatorship when it comes to all that lives inside of you, but it’s just independence and real control over yourself and your life when it comes to the real and only human self that exists inside you. So are you ready to liberate yourself by assuming control over the entirety of you?