How can one individual assist in maximizing human well being by advancing the cause of liberty?
His first task is to learn his true nature. 1. Each of us has the ability to think and act as he pleases. 2. Each of us controls his own energy. We do it wisely or foolishly, but we do it individually. We may act on the advice or the command of others. Or we may decide not to. Our own energies remain under our individual command and control. 3. It follows that I cannot make you free; I can earn my own freedom by controlling myself instead of trying to control others. 4. What steps do I take when I wish to be free? 5. I free myself from dependency on others when that dependency is created or maintained by force. Since there is no way that I can survive without the help of others, I will always be dependent to some degree. But I can depend upon the voluntary support others provided when they willingly buy my goods or services. If I have to compel them to buy my goods or services — either directly at the point of a gun, or indirectly through governmental avenues — then I am acting in a
