Breaking Loose

I ALWAYS find it somewhat repugnant when people speak in terms of humanity en masse. Regardless of the differences that exist between individual human beings, the irrational tendency to generalise in this way has the best of us rubbing shoulders with the worst. At least metaphorically speaking, because some of us do our utmost to avoid unpleasant categorisation of this kind and prefer to mingle with a select few. Worst of all, this pseudo-egalitarianism completely overlooks the fact that whilst the quantity of human beings is increasing the quality is rapidly declining to the extent that very few are capable of thinking and acting independently.

Furthermore, although the high priests of the modern food industry will no doubt find a way to hold off the ravages of starvation with some kind of semi-edible mush, the only way the artificiality of humanity en masse can possibly be sustained is under the tyranny of the jackboot. That, for me, is cause for optimism, because desperate brutality always has an obverse effect and - with a little help - will soon lead to the overdue fragmentation of any contrived multitude.