Pride is an involuntary reaction to your actions that you perceived as virtuous. Example: if you believe honesty or hard work are virtues (thru your own logic and reasoning and not thru something like dogma) then you will not help but be proud if you are honest or hard working even when tempted to be dishonest and lazy.

When you align the action of your body with the thoughts of your mind then you have feelings about that. You can't hide from yourself. If your actions are misaligned with your thoughts then you can't hide from yourself either. You may be able to fool others but you can't fool yourself.

There is no State.

It is just an imaginary entity.

There are people and buildings and guns... But "state" is just an idea.

It is not the greatest idea... Probably a bad one.

The idea goes something like: "if we dress people up in a uniform and give them permission to break the golden rule then that is the best way to protect the golden rule!"

Just highlight and abandon bad ideas and they fade away.

Oh they CAN SEE the bars! All you have to do is start talking about the bars and watch their reactions! They choose to ignore the bars and will attack you for bringing them up... Because they build and maintain those bars!

The toughest chains are the ones we put on ourselves... Out of pressure from dogma and culture... And then to soothe our heartache about the chains we built we choose to suppress the topic...not talk about it... Even attack those among us who bring it up... Especially the children because their freedom makes us uncomfortable and has to be chained as well so we can continue to manage the pain for what we have done!