I am my greatest enemy
All too familiar a sentiment
My greatest hindrance
My greatest enemy’s most damaging tool
Inaction

Instead of order, chaos
Instead of a homework assignment, a YouTube video
Instead of the weight room, the bed sheets

Others can guide
A speaker, heard
A sentence, or a paragraph, read
An action, two actions, dozens, observed
Rouse to resolve, to anger, to action
Briefly

But the true solution is within
I cast my chains,
And so only I can break them.

George Levitin

There are people in the world who will sit before their television sets or their computer screens, idly browsing the wonders of the Internet in such a way that will in no way benefit them or help them achieve the objectives they must complete. But when the time begins to run out, when there are mere hours left on the clock before all is lost, these people are riveted inexplicably to action, with the aid of caffeine to create pages of text or clean entire apartments at half the speed of light. There is the one who will slumber for hours until an hour to midnight, and then down cans of caffeinated beverages and with fresh vigor attack a keyboard or a lone piece of paper.

[I chose to imitate the stylistic elements from Baudelaire’s The Bad Glazier, imitating from his style of writing a hypothetical example of how certain people function, and bringing to the reader’s mind a clear example of their actions under the given circumstances.]

I disagree with Kant’s suggestion that each person can be both a “scholar,” as Kant put it, and fulfill another, contradicting position at the same time. On Page 107, Kant points to a clergyman that is in his free time a scholar, who is bound to preach along the rules of the church, unable to act against the confines of religion is free to criticize it in his free time; this is an unhealthy idea that leads to such concepts as a preacher that will collect donations for the church and then behind the backs of his donors repurpose these funds to serve some personal indulgence such as furniture or an airplane. Furthermore, this suggests that he is obligated to teach to others information that he, and others, may find to be uncertain or entirely incorrect. His obligation to abide by the rules and teachings of his church, then, would lead him to deliberately misinform those under his tutelage despite the fact that he can, via free thinking, take an opposing stance and speak the truth. Similarly, an officer should not necessarily be ruined by resisting an order of a superior officer if said order leads him to do something heinous, up to and including criminal activity.