Gregor, I really appreciate you sharing this — it means a lot. What you describe is exactly the heart of it: when a state claims ownership not just over your actions, but over your body and your voice, it crosses into something far deeper than politics. It becomes a theft of existence itself.

And what makes it so insidious, as you said, is that it often starts so early — in school, in rules we don’t question at first — until one day you realize your body and your thoughts were never fully yours under that system.

That’s why I believe this struggle is universal. It’s not only about Iran, or Palestine, or any single country. It’s about reclaiming what Terence McKenna described: our bodies and our minds as domains that must remain free from government control.

When a state turns people into property, it stops being a government and becomes an owner. And ownership of human beings is always tyranny, no matter the flag it hides under.