In giving them some benefit of the doubt at first, i remained in both political and spiritual stasis, part of the anxious herd, eagerly awaiting the next order from up high. Always libertarian in principle, but rarely in practice as i grimly accepted my slavery, a culmination of my modern apathy, pissed off that i could not get back to my football, video games, social media - my matrix.

And slowly, they bought me to life, they raised the cost, the entry price to this 'matrix'. Before i was sleepwalking to my grave, and now i am alive and awake and starting to live and love again because this all reminded me that i must fight for these things, they were never owed to me.

So it's deeper than a moral hard line, its a spiritual hard line, its liberty or death, its a stand for humanity and how we define what humanity is? Whether its a socio-industrial machine that reduces us to commodities, or a thing of enduring love and beauty that is worth fighting for. I choose the latter, and what's more, i understand that fighting for my own rights is one thing, but fighting for others is what secures freedoms pre-emptively, and that is now what i wish to do.

So thank you global governments, for finally snapping me out of my daydream and reminding me there are things worth fighting for, i would take one day feeling this way, over an eternity in their prisons.