Just stop

Can you stop forcing other people to conform to your preferences? Can you stop outsourcing your violence to third parties? Can you stop projecting your fear onto everyone else? Can you stop believing that anyone else but you represents you? Can you take responsibility for your own life and stop making it mine or anyone else’s? Can you stop ginning up prior restraint scenarios in your mind that excuse you for coercively applying your values upon everyone else? Can you stop behaving like just another drone in the hive mind? Can you stop being herded? Can you stop herding? Can you stop thinking collectively and start thinking individually? Can you stop thinking you need leaders? Can you stop thinking you need rulers? Can you represent yourself? Can you lead yourself? Can you rule yourself? If not, why not?