It means trying to figure out how to work together to meet our individual needs, how to work with each other rather than "For" or against each other. And when this is impossible, it means preferring strife to submission and domination.

It means not valuing any system or ideology above the people it purports to serve, not valuing anything theoretical above the real things in this world. It means being faithful to real human beings (and animals, etc.) fighting for ourselves and for each other, not out of "responsibility," not for "causes" or other intangible concepts.

It means not forcing your desires into a hierarchical order, either, but accepting and embracing all of them, accepting your-self. It means not trying to force the self to abide by any external laws, not trying to restrict your emotions to the predictable or the practical, not pushing your instincts and desires into boxes: for there is no cage large enough to accommodate the human soul in all its flights, all its heights and depths.

It means refusing to put the responsibility for your happiness in anyone Else's hands, whether that be parents, lovers, employers, or society itself. It means taking the pursuit of meaning and joy in your life upon your own shoulders.


For what else should we pursue, if not happiness? If something isn't valuable because we find meaning and joy in it, then what could possibly make it important? How could abstractions like "responsibility," "Order," or "propriety" possibly be more important than the real needs of the people who invented them? Should we serve employers, the state, God, Capitalism, Moral Law, Causes, Movements, "Society" before ourselves? Who taught you that anyway?