With Thomas Jefferson, “I have sworn … eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Unfortunately most of us are forced to maintain a dual-forked system of ethics. One fork is the sovereign prerogative of a free and unfettered conscience. But we must also maintain a second fork of ethics that are imposed upon our outward behavior as a consequence of negotiations with the ethical biases of others, some of whom may hold considerable negotiating advantages over us. That never ceases to suck. That is why we either go into the wilderness (I hear land is still cheap above the Arctic Circle) or we organize.