# False Security By:: [[Brian Heath]] 2025-01-19 Security is essentially a myth one tells to help one sleep better at night. In other words, security isn't real and only an idea propagated by anxiety and fear. It's a warm blanket that easily evaporates. The locks on your doors will not protect you from someone who really wants to enter your house. They will either knock the doors down or find some tricky legal means to enter. The patents on your products don't prevent others from stealing them if they want to. There are endless patent trolls, people with more money than you to fight you endlessly, and shadow organizations that don't care about the rules. The firewalls and company policies protecting sensitive data on a server won't stop people from stealing it if they really want to. Computer systems are hacked all the time via endless security flaws, and unhappy employees can always find ways around these systems and policies. This security is all for show. At best, it prevents entry-level bad actors from accessing what is secured, but these bad actors are unlikely to do anything. If one operates within this paradigm, the best way to be secure is not to own anything, say anything, or interact with anybody. In short, the only way to be secure is to basically not exist. All other alternatives will result in risk and pretend security. One alternative to this is to accept that nothing is secure and to be at peace with it. Here, one exists and accepts that existence comes with a price. Sometimes, that price is low, and nothing happens. Other times, that price is high, and one loses it all. This paradigm focuses not on the things to be secured but on everything else: the shared joy, the experiences, and the solidarity with others. There is a reason why small communities don't lock their doors: it's because they operate in a different paradigm of life. #### Related Items [[Security]] [[Life]] [[Paradigms]] [[Solidarity]] [[Myths]] [[Anxiety]] [[Materialism]] [[Fear]]