Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature
that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's body, your wife's
dream of love, your own dream of life when you were sixteen. Exchange your
illusions for a bit of truth. Throw out your politicians and diplomats! Take
your destiny into your own hands and build your life on rock. Forget about your
neighbor and look inside yourself! Your neighbor, too, will be grateful. Tell
you're fellow workers all over the world that you're no longer willing to work
for death but only for life. Instead of flocking to executions and shouting
hurrah, hurrah, make a law for the protection of human life and its blessings.
Such a law will be part of the granite foundation your house rests on. Protect
your small children's love against the assaults of lascivious, frustrated men
and women. Stop the mouth of the malignant old maid; expose her publicly or
send her to a reform school instead of young people who are longing for love.
Don't try to outdo your exploiter in exploitation if you have a chance to
become a boss. Throw away your swallowtails and top hat, and stop applying for
a license to embrace your woman. Join forces with your kind in all countries;
they are like you, for better or worse. Let your child grow up as God intended.
Don't try to improve on nature. Learn to understand it and protect it. Go to the
library instead of the prizefight, go to foreign countries rather than to Coney
Island. And first and foremost, think straight, trust the quiet inner voice
inside you that tells you what to do. You hold your life in your hands, don't
entrust it to anyone else, least of all to your chosen leaders. BE YOURSELF!
Any number of great men have told you that.
Wilhelm Reich
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