encoded notions

Individuals always pose a threat to the clever illusion of society. They refuse to be members of the collective single entity of society. Rules (laws) are assigned as an efficient mechanism for restraining the outliers of the populace. If one breaks the rules, one goes to jail; if one is in jail, one can no longer be a part of society. If all potential societal deviants are packed-away in prisons, their individualism can no longer spread throughout the system like a virus and weaken the strength of the societal bonding. The active individuals within a localized society act as catalysts to accelerate its entropic destruction; it is the task of the mindless to retain some semblance of order and structure and a continuance of their mindlessness.

Differences are what fuel the development and advancement of society, yet society continually suffocates its pilot light. Historians claim that the Romans conquered Europe, that the Allies won WWII, and that NASA landed U.S. citizens on the moon. Society does nothing. Caesar conquered Europe, Churchill & Roosevelt & Truman & Bletchley Park ended WWII, and Kennedy caused people like Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin to want to walk on the moon. Individuals lead the fights, win the wars, make the money, cure the diseases, and write the future while society blindly and dumbly follows its leaders.

Flagrant displays of individualism, however, are detrimental to one’s own involvement in a society. To live among others, individualism must be suppressed to an acceptable level; one must consciously obey the structures of the whole while still retaining one’s own uniqueness. ”Resistance is not futile”. Being a member of a society does not necessarily entail the loss of one’s self. Society, when used in this manner, is an extension to one’s self; it is another organ under the control of not one, but many minds. To wield and work it well, one must learn to apply one’s individual traits in such a way as to influence enough minds so that the societal arm may be lifted. The majority is controlled by the minority via the struggle to combat the collective for control of one’s uniqueness.

The command of so much power in an innocuous guise of obedience is the reason that society feels threatened by individuals. Society feels the need to be in control of itself and to exist as a decentralized network of living entities. Such a thing cannot exist due to the very nature of human beings. Each human strives to guide themselves through life; one only turns over self-control to another person in times of physical limitations and laziness, but the will to regain the self-government sits poised behind the eyes. Someone must lead society, but must let the people believe the contrary.