In sum, I think I am balanced and in a way ready to transform with society into a more sensate way of life, where things don’t cost, where we’re all free to work on what we like, where basics are taken care of, and where p2p brings us world wide connectivity, possibilities of exchange with others, knowledge about what’s happening elsewhere and a possibility to contribute to the motion, everyone in their own way.

I hold with Victor Frankl when he says that man always has the power to choose – and indeed, freely chooses every reaction he has to his environment. You don’t “have to” go to school. You choose to do it because you fear punishment, or want the lifestyle the salary you can get with a diploma can afford you, or because you don’t want to disappoint your parents. If someone puts a gun to your head and says “file this paperwork,” you can always choose not to. Obviously, there may be consequences. But it’s still a choice on your part.

Also consider Buddhist monks, and many other religious orders. They clean toilets, take orders… I’m sure at some point some of them have done rote form-filling-out for tax purposes or otherwise. They’re trying to live in the moment, though, and achieve enlightenment in their minds no matter what their bodies “have” to do.

As for me, I’d say that I’m my own master, and I’m my own slave, to use one of your terms.