You've been trained since childhood to believe you cannot function without state permission and provision. The programming runs so deep that even reading this, you'll feel resistance to acting on it.
But learned helplessness has a cure: you must demonstrate to yourself that you have control by actually exercising it. This post maps the escape routes. The only question is whether you'll take one.
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