When I worked in a wealthy gated community, some of the most “educated” and financially powerful people hated me after I published my book A Dance to Freedom. And I know exactly why.
Because what I have — you can’t buy it, cheat for it, bribe someone to give it to you, or fake your way into it.
If it can be bought or stolen, it's not freedom — it's illusion. And all illusions eventually burst.
As I wrote in 2019 in response to the college admissions scandal:
“It’s sad to witness people falling for the illusion that formal education, talents, money, and fame are the path to freedom. These things alone just reinforce people’s fears and the walls of their emotional prisons.”
“At a university, what most people gain is abstract knowledge — not self-knowledge, which is the most important knowledge of all. Without it, we deceive ourselves and others. A degree is often just a ticket into the world to spread the psychological virus — all while pretending to help.”
This is why so many people in power — therapists, doctors, professors — protect the system that gave them status. They’re not just defending their careers; they’re defending their identity, their denial, and their place in the social hierarchy.
They can’t stand someone who got free without going through their system — because it threatens their illusion of superiority.
As Alice Miller said:
“Among thousands of professors at hundreds of universities, there is not one single university chair for teaching about child abuse and cruelty to children. Why? Because that cruelty successfully masquerades as parenting and education.”
— The Truth Will Set You Free, p. 101
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