Good post. Upvoted, followed.

I tend to agree with most of it, and I agree with many other philosophical models, but I never tend to agree 100%. I am more of a mix and mash of many things that I can verify as accurate.

I just have a semantic issue with the term itself.

Existence, being. You can persist your existence, by supplanting your values and free will choice to submit to authority in order to survive. As you say. But then it's not simply existence itself, just being, as the most important. There is more to it. The physical aspect of being is primary in causality. Existence is first. But consciousness is the power, the secondary being of existence that emerges from the basic first level physicality. Free will, choice, accepting principles and values into our core being of who we are as a consciousness, seems to be more important than simply a physical existence.

So I am more bringing up semantic clarity of definition, more than I am disagreeing with the position. There are two existences of being, the physical, survival, and the second the being of consciousness, where we can become something else as we choose, as we learn, as we grow, to change, etc. Being and becoming is the power of consciousness and our core essence of existence to evolve and learn principles of truth, morality, etc. While the physical existence is a basic aspect that can't change like consciousness can.

The importance is indeed in existence, but which one is up to us to choose. Like you say, to choose to refuse to pay taxes and stand for our principles and truth, or to agree to submit to the tyranny because we also favor the importance of our physical existence.

Just wanted to mention those two distinctions of how existence can be applied. We can choose the physical "lower" survival focus, and we certainly do to survive in this messed up world. And then there is the higher consciousness, higher existence, to accept and live up to principles of truth and morality. I deal with similar issues to explain in my studying of existence and consciousness in my own work.

Thanks for an interesting post. Take care. Peace.