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# Blood & Ink: Thursday
- URL: https://www.zenmedicine.co/11/
- Published: 2024-10-10T12:35:47.000Z
- Updated: 2025-02-09T15:58:30.000Z
- Description: ethical disobedience / buffered authority / living standards
- Author: Eric Brown
- Tags: Blood x Ink

*“Historically, the most terrible things; war, genocide, and slavery, have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”* 
  
*– Howard Zinn*

J. Krishnamurti said something to this effect, in a less moralizing frame:

> *“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”*

The powers that be gaslight you into believing that you are the problem should you stray but one inch from their path.

But a lone dissenter rarely commits the scale of atrocities that are sanctified and supported by the masses.

**There is a place for ethical disobedience.** 

It is an uphill battle, a swim against the stream. But to lose your soul while gaining the world is a Faustian bargain not worth making.

**Throughout every Warrior culture, strict adherence to a clear moral code was paramount.**

The Bushido of the samurai, Chivalry for the Knights.

This requires a fierce moral code and personal authority. Adopt a strong ethical framework, and have the spine to adhere to it. 

Onward,  
Eric Brown.