APPENDIX M
Freedom Focused Corporate
Declaration of Independence
Established in the Year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Five
When in the course of corporate events, it becomes necessary for an organization to rise above the mediocre, the mean, and even the monumental, in order to form a new company that rises to superior and unprecedented heights within and beyond a designated industry. Not for the purpose of self-promotion or organizational aggrandizement, and not even primarily for profit; but because the moral foundation and functional effectuality of educational institutions, the well-being and prosperity of society, and the preservation of authentic, virtuous, compassionate, and just cultures depends upon it—and because its builders possess the liberty, knowledge, desire, power, freedom, and will to construct it.
In the spirit of the freedom focused Founding Fathers and Mothers of The United States of America, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created with an innate existential worth, value, and equality. We further declare that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, privileges, and potential powers, and that among these are life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and growth, and the potential acquisition of limitless personal, relational, and professional achievements, contributions, satisfactions, fulfillments, and FREEDOMS attainable through disciplined hard work when undertaken on the altar of principle-centered pursuits that are synergized with the graceful mercies, enabling powers, and serendipitous grace of Providence.
In an unrelenting quest to acquire the growth, freedom, prosperity, and inner peace we believe our Creator desires and intends for us to individually and collectively attain, and with an undeviating reliance on our own Providence-suffused efforts and merits, we hereby declare our independence from the polluted ideologies of pre-structuralist and post-structuralist (postmodernist) philosophical extremes that stifle human liberty, shackle the spirit, mind, and heart of humankind, and relegate the reality of right and wrong to the foolhardy files of philological fiction.
In words of humility and soberness, we declare that Truth—with a capital 'T'—exists as an omnipotent and omnipresent reality and force throughout our shared physical world as well as our unique, individual metaphysical "worlds" (i.e. our experiences and relationships). This force is irrevocably independent of the natural inclinations, arbitrary desires, ever-changing and cycling styles and fashions, and whimsical caprice of mercurial man. As corollary to this great verity, we acknowledge the eternal existence and clear divisibility of a real right and wrong and the veracious moral principles that articulate this distinct dichotomy. We further acknowledge that absolute consequences—determined by Universal Laws of physics and metaphysics—always accompany human thoughts, speech, and actions, and that the full weight of their preeminent power lies beyond any assumed authority of men or women to arbitrarily adjudicate or despotically determine.
As Agents of Freedom Focused, we declare our inexhaustible intention to seek after Truth and then do what is right to the best of our imperfect knowledge and flawed capacities with a clear recognition that human pride, selfishness, and vice left unchecked brings about the predictable downfall and ruin of individual lives, relationships of all kinds, organizational entities, and collective populaces that constitute the body politic.
We further declare our independence from the enslaving pride, greed, corruption, and lust that has so marred individual leaders and organizational cultures throughout our nation and world's public and private sectors in recent generations—and throughout the history of our singularly remarkable, yet perennially troubled nation and planet. In evincing the particulars of this widespread contemporary and historical malaise, let the following citations of individual and corporate unscrupulousness be candidly enumerated to a morally inebriated world:
- Lust for, and coveting of, authority, power, material possessions—or anything else rightfully belonging to another.
- Arrogant pride and rapacity, which leads to:
- Overinflated executive egos, salaries, and lack of respect for subordinates.
- Mid-level managerial egos and unnecessary inter-organizational politicking.
- Employee egos, one-upsmanship, and lack of respect for supervisors and their authority.
- Underinflated salaries of non-executive and non-managerial positions.
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Freedom Focused Declares its Independence from all kinds
of Dishonest, Manipulative, and Unscrupulous Behavior |
Idleness, laziness, apathy, bad attitudes, and mediocrity.
- Deceit, manipulation, and untrustworthiness in all their venomous manifestations.
- Inconstancy, disloyalty, and lack of organizational, community, national, and global patriotism.
- Negativity, gossip, backbiting, and revenge.
- The formation of faction cliques and the jejune juvenility and damage engendered thereby.
- Blame, reactivity, and victimhood.
- Excessive/unnecessary bureaucracy, politicking, and litigation.
- The inefficient and ineffective use and waste of time, energy, and resources.
- Low standards, dim vision, and lackluster results.
- The dearth of meritocracy, including the formation and perpetuation of unjustified positions of tenure at all levels of the organization.
Freedom Focused has arisen in an age of illusion, deception, and disillusionment for the purpose of transcending these aforementioned organizational ills that have become culturally endemic in the Western World and beyond. As token of our declared independence from these crippling vanities and destructive vices, we hereby hoist the flag of personal and professional goodness, responsibility, honor, and will atop the flagpole of truth, conscience, order, discipline, duty, and beauty in a never-ending quest after personal and professional growth and freedom.
As admittedly flawed human beings, we acknowledge that even our best intentions and efforts will ultimately fall short of perfectly personifying the stirringly high virtues, standards, and IDEALS set forth in this declaration—as well as those championed in the Freedom Focused Corporate Constitution (FFCC). Despite this humbling recognition, we enthusiastically assert that our potential for improvement, growth, and freedom is inhibited to whatever degree we aim for anything less than perfection. To truly progress, one must aim—however imperfectly—at perfect IDEALS. Thus, we hereby establish the ideals set forth in this Declaration and its concomitant Constitution, which are as perfect as we can presently ascertain.
As Agents and Executives of
Freedom Focused Corporation, and appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, we do, in the name of Truth and Universal Law, and by the authority of the good people of this corporation, solemnly publish and declare our commitment to strive endlessly to overcome any and all conquerable individual and corporate deficiencies that both damage or dam the long-term success, vitality, and potential of individuals and organizations everywhere.
With all the knowledge, power, creativity, and will of our minds, hearts, and spirits, we seek after this freedom, which is not a right, but an earned privilege to those willing to pay the price in time, effort, and self-sacrifice in obedience to True Principles rooted in Universal Laws. In support of this declaration, and with a firm reliance on the assistance, grace, and mercy of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our past experiences, present careers, and future visions and loyalties—laying it all up willingly on the altar of our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
—Dr. JJ
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, USA
Author's Note: This is the 532nd Blog Post Published by Freedom Focused LLC since November 2013 and the 314th consecutive weekly blog published since August 31, 2020.
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