If you've:

• Never felt oppressed by others' opinions.
• Never been unsure if your beliefs and values were truly your own.
• Never wondered how to balance valuing your own truth with respecting the wills of others.
• Never wished you could truly transform yourself and the world into the version you've wished for, rather than feel guilty for falling short of your actual potential.

Then this book isn't for you.

Who it is for is individuals who know there's something stuck in them—a block preventing them from expressing the kind of person they want to be and creating the life they desire. It's also for those who want to understand their place among others, and others' place beside them—to know how to coexist not just as a means of tolerance, but of acceptance and autonomy.

This book is for those who want to both fully express their true, ideal selves, while also fully understanding their place in the world around them.

• To act with purpose and conviction while still maintaining compassion for others.
• To be not a soldier of this or that camp, or an automaton of external parties, but their own individual.

This book seeks to give those individuals a unified means of being what cannot be replicated: themselves. This book is for outcast intellectuals, and it is their manifesto.