Collective individuality

Living outside of society gives me, I would like to think at least, a very unique perspective. I see what appears to escape most. Or, I'm just a crazy person. I see this collection of walking dead inspiring only despair. Heartbreaking. I could sell tickets to this circus, but who would buy them? I watch as unity is achieved under everything from sexual proclivity to hatred. But collective individuality? Let your mind gnaw on that one for a second. Collective individuality. Huh. Most are so dead inside the only thing that inspires life is anger. Or perversion. And there are some seriously twisted freaks out there. Which pisses off more people everyday. What a vicious ugly little circle. Sometimes I wonder if that isn’t perpetuated purposely?

Where are the great writers today? The painters, philosophers, artists? Show the first sign of creativity and someone is drugging you into submission. Conformed into a massive ingot under the all powerful hammer of one. I'm amazed we aren’t all wearing jumpsuits of a single color by now, in the exact same house, driving the same non-nondescript vehicle. Then again, looking at some of the suburbs, yes, they all look the same. Majority of vehicles? Yes, they are beginning to appear the same too.

I'm thinking somebody long long ago tending their sheep high on the mountain, looked about themselves and said,.”how do I get these sheep together?” Build a fence, they concluded and all will be in one place. Eventually, someone else saw that principle worked, and applied it to humanity. And it worked too. Looking around they could see people, individuals, joined together by nothing more than their imaginations. Reaching conclusions and understandings collectively, yet individually. Except there is no control under that philosophy. Time to build a fence.

I believe that fence began with religion. Collecting all under the one interpretation. Others then saw the power wielded by those who controlled and decided they wanted authority of their own. They came up with a different version. Same ideology, slightly different packaging. Now everyone is one. Now the sheep are in the fence, all controlled by a few and there is peace in the world. Ha, like that is even possible. I swear these fools are trying to shove 10 pounds of jello in a 2 pound can. They have 9 pounds in it. Its that last persnickety pound that keeps driving them nuts.

From religion came science. Because there are those who just know. Ancient man, with his fear of the unknown, devised many ways to explain the mysteries of the dark. The sounds and stirring unexplainable when the lights went out. Dismiss the knowledge he possessed of every creature for a 200 mile radius. His observed understanding of their habits and interactions with everything else. When the sun went down, based on fear, he had to come up with imaginary explanations. Plausible, yes. Also absolute bullshit. But it sounds good on paper. Maybe, just maybe, ancient man had it right all along.

Science is simply a continuation of beating the populace into submission. Continuing right up to this very moment. Every day those who know explain how there is only one. One interpretation of God. A supreme entity. One way of living as a society superior to all the others. Non conformity is unacceptable. Dare to voice a consideration of another way and be immediately labeled as mentally ill. Everything has been defined to its essence. Even the vast universe, reality itself, brought under the mighty hammer of one.

Billions upon billions of galaxies, with billions upon billions of planets. But we are the only ones. There is only one planet that has sentient beings. Gazing onto the vastness of the night sky, we are as good as it gets. That's terrifying. Disregarding every scrap of evidence we uncover, buried under 4 billion years of existence. Dismissing indigenous understandings as the rantings of an ignorant people afraid of the dark. That takes arrogance. A level of pretentious egotism unachievable by most. Are we really that brain dead?

Because, as we are instructed every day, science has the facts. This is how it is. Convincing the masses that all is only one. This that we know is based upon what we have been told we know by those who insist they know. Plausible, but bullshit. How utterly boring. How amazingly arrogant. Seems it was better as an idea, an unknowing, and occasionally one would step out and exclaim revelation!, sharing an insight never before perceived. Try that today and watch what happens. We have become a collection of soulless unimaginative walking corpses. The only difference between us and the dead is a pulse. A continuation of the flat earth sun revolves around the earth theory.

To think this is the only reality is absurd. Ancient man knew it. Every indigenous society understood it. Not one God. A great mystery, a great unknown. Something to imagine, something to ponder and mentally gnaw on. Opening the conscious to the possibility of unlimited possibilities. Collective individuality. Imagining the unimaginable.

What is out there? What is in here? What is the meaning of life? Is this all there is? Are we simply meat puppets, existing on this plane for a period of time, only to expire and rot? Is our existence defined simply by accumulation? Or is there something more to this? Life, this existence, is a zero sum game. Death exists to give meaning to life. Anything other than achieving comprehension of the unknown is frivolous and self destructive. Use your head for something besides a hat rack. There is an amazing apparatus inside that protective shell of bone. The vast majority uses 10%. That’s 90% untapped. Laying there, decaying under the weight of all that is known. Or maybe I'm just nuts and have spent way too much time alone. I'm an individual, among the collective. Plenty of room if you care to join me.