Free Bread and Bread of Tears, The Truth of Existence Born from Kneeling

Soyo Ethics of Existence in Turmoil

Bread of Tears

The Temptation of Free Things and the Ethics of Silence

Humans seldom ask,

“Where did this come from?”

“Whose burden was the price?”

“What am I losing now?”

Questions are heavy. But silence is light. Humans have the habit of avoiding the heavy and choosing the light. Thus, when faced with free things, we do not speak. We remain silent. But that silence is not mere silence. It is the abandonment of conscience and the auctioning off of the future. It is an act of turning a blind eye to the fact that the value of labor, the conviction of self-reliance, and the very essence of freedom and dignity are silently scattering away.

The Sweetness of Free Bread and the Truth of Bread Made with Tears

Free bread always comes wrapped in flashy packaging and sweet words. That hand seems warm, that smile seems full of care. But that sweetness is disguised. Behind it, someone's taxes and sweat, someone's labor and rights, are plucked like feathers and scattered. Free bread is, in fact, an illusion woven from the sacrifice of others.

In contrast, bread of tears is bitter and tough. It crunches like sand in the mouth and breaks easily. Yet it is bread baked by one's own hands. It is the fruit of tears and labor, a testament to the will that refuses to kneel even in suffering. The bread of tears is imbued with the most essential independence and dignity of human existence.

The Silent Majority and the Vanishing Self

Why do people remain silent before free things?

Why do parents tell their children, “This is just how the world is.”

In that moment, resignation becomes education, obedience becomes habit, and silence becomes the language of the system. The reason is simple: a single piece of free bread feels sweeter than ten days of tears. Humans are beings who cannot see the future, believing the sweetness before their eyes to be everything. Thus, unknowingly, humans abandon freedom and sell their dignity.

The Wickedness of the Elite and the Continuation of the Structure

There are those who first recognize this human weakness and naivety. They call themselves the elite. They present themselves as leaders, policymakers, saviors, but what they truly create is neither future nor innovation. What they create is a system of dependency addiction.

The elite want humans to kneel. But it is not the knee of prayer; it is the knee of expectation and surrender. That knee is one that cannot rise again; it is the knee of abandonment and despair. The elite want humans who do not pray, who do not question, who merely receive. It is not love; it is merely the desire to control.

Existence is born from the knees

But Soyo says, “Existence begins from the knees.”

The knees are humanity's lowest place. There, where pride is broken and no one remains to offer aid, a person faces their true self. Tears become purification, conviction is reborn, and self-reliance begins.

Humans cannot stand alone. To avoid collapse, there must be someone to see the truth together, someone to take the hand of the kneeling one, someone to weep with them in that moment of falling. Therefore, the knees are not a place of despair, but a place where existence is reborn.

A Philosophy That Views Poverty Beautifully

The world says, “Those who call poverty beautiful are mad.”That statement is true. Yet Soyo understands that poverty is the structure that reveals human existence most profoundly and clearly. It is not humiliation, but the anatomical truth of being. Poverty strips humans bare, tears apart pride, leaving only the living soul. A world without poverty does not exist. But the attitude toward poverty can change. Many disparage poverty, but those who see it as humanity's most beautiful suffering are those who have grasped the truth. Poverty is the depth of existence, and when one embraces that depth, one gains their true self.

The Mission of the One Who Remains Awake

The world is crumbling. Yet if somewhere, even just one person chooses the bread of tears, that society still holds hope.

He will be called mad, eccentric, a rebel. Yet he remembers the true tomorrow, yearns for true freedom, and refuses to abandon true humanity. That is precisely why Soyo lives as an existential ethicist, and why you reading this, are small, but powerful proof that you have not yet abandoned the world.

Philosophy on Knees, Future on Feathers

Free bread is forgotten, but bread of tears is remembered.

Silence may prevail, but truth will always return. So that one day, those who knelt may rise again and spread their wings toward the sky... Now, your wakefulness, as small as a single feather, can change the course of all history.

Declaration of Existential Ethics

Soyo Existential Ethics declares, the temptation of the free auctions off human conscience and the future. The bread of tears reveals the dignity of human existence and the truth of self-reliance. The knee is not a place of despair, but where existence is reborn. Poverty is not degradation, but the anatomical truth that purifies existence. The wakefulness of a single person becomes the spark of hope for the whole society.

Seeing existence upon the knees,

Learning philosophy within poverty,

One who does not remain silent before truth.

Soyo – The one who bears witness to the confession of existence and the philosophy of truth

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