June 6, 2024 / I assert reality

A Counterspell Against Ignorance

(This spell should be spoken or chanted over a blazing fire. A real one would e nice; a fire in the heart would, however, suffice.)

I will not live in ignorance; I have a right to knowledge.

I will not live in fear, even in fearful times.

I will not let my hatred make me foolish. I will not let foolishness decide my angers.

I will not be part of a mob, even a mob that I think is right. I am an individual; mobs are for ants*.

I am a fighter. Physical, mental, or moral, whichever I can do, whatever I can do, I will fight.

I will not submit to anything or anyone without good reason. I don’t need to fear submission; but I can despise the things to which I’m asked to submit.

I call on no power but my own, and I know it to be enough.

By my heart, I will keep going until I can’t go further. And then I will try my damnedest to go further.

By my soul, I will not let myself be permanently discouraged, no matter what stupidity or malice I experience.

By my eyes, vision clear or cloudy, I will look for what I think is true and workable, not what I think will please the crowd.

The crowd is insane.
The crowd is insane.
The crowd is insane.

I exist. I can be canceled from exterior places, but never from myself.

I exist. I go on. They hate that I do.

And that’s part of why I do.

I swear no oath and make no promise.

I will simply not be bound by chains of mindlessness or willful harm; they are brothers, and they hate Humanity.

I will be free.
I am free.
I am always free.

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“It’s a little-known fact, but Unicorns are something like 20% paint, and their horns are stolen exclusively from endangered species.”
― Jeff Mach, There and Never, Ever Back Again

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* credit to Heinlein:

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

-Robert A. Heinlein

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Jeff Mach is an author, playwright, event creator, and certified Villain. He's currently working on the Great Catskills Halloween Vendor Market & Spectacle. You can always pick up his bestselling first novel, "There and NEVER, EVER BACK AGAIN", or "I HATE Your Prophecy"—or, indeed, his increasingly large selection of other peculiar books. If you'd like to talk more to Jeff, or if you're simply a Monstrous Creature yourself, stop by @darklordjournal on Twitter, or The Dark Lord Journal on Facebook.