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"...Thus, the first reason for voluntary servitude is habit." - Etienne de La Boétie "Therefore, resolve to serve no more and you will be free. I do not want you to clash with it, nor to shake it, but simply to no longer support it, and you will see it, like a great colossus whose base is stolen, fall of its own weight and shatter."<br><br> "Indeed, just as the fire of a spark grows large and ever stronger, and the more wood it finds to burn, the more it devours, but is consumed and finally extinguished by itself when it is no longer fed: similarly, the more tyrants plunder, the more they demand; the more they ruin and destroy, the more they are supplied, the more they are gorged; they grow stronger all the more and are always more disposed to annihilate and destroy everything; but if nothing is given to them, if they are not obeyed; without fighting them, without striking them, they remain naked and defeated: like that tree which, no longer receiving sap and nourishment at its root, is soon nothing but a dry and dead branch."<br><br> "To suffer plunder, brigandage, and cruelty, not at the hands of an army, not at the hands of a horde of barbarians, against whom each should defend his life at the cost of all his blood, but at the hands of one man; shall we call that cowardice?"<br><br> "A truly surprising thing (and yet so common, that one should rather lament it than be astonished by it)! It is to see millions upon millions of men, miserably enslaved, and subjected headlong to a deplorable yoke, not because they are forced into it by a major force, but because they are fascinated and, so to speak, bewitched by the mere name of one whom they should neither fear, since he is alone, nor cherish, since he is, towards them all, inhuman and cruel."<br><br> "...if we see not a hundred, not a thousand, but a hundred countries, a thousand cities, a million men not attacking, not crushing the one who, without any consideration, treats them all like so many serfs and slaves: how shall we describe that?"<br><br> "Is it not shameful to see an infinite number of men not only obeying, but groveling, not being governed, but tyrannized, having neither property, nor parents, nor children, nor even their own lives?"<br><br> - Etienne de La Boétie<br><br> <b>Please note:</b><br> Unfortunately, the Studio room is not accessible to people with disabilities.<br> The stage setup does not allow for latecomers.