The Faceless Monster


'' The overlord is usually content with himself . he loves his routine and duties , and resists change . He never simply gives in until an army of new Invaders ( Members ) choke him up and force realizations upon him ; to which the beast reacts poorly . he gets infuriated and throws tantrums , creates a mess until he gradually realizes that the mutiny of these new invaders was just so they can dive in and and occupy some space inside the monster's head and that he is not the same beast he was a Generation ago .''

Given the concept of emergence , the fact that new properties of a system emerge when smaller units are viewed collectively as one state , we can derive that large groups of individuals behave like one single organism .this can be seen in the corporate world where a large business starts to behave like a separate organism who's motivations and ambitions are different from the aspirations of all the individuals .In the same was society seems to take the form of a Faceless Monster . a kind of overlord who's intellect , open mindedness and opinions are dictated by the statistical median , opinions of the population . 

For the most part this Monster is not very open minded and open to new experiences or activities , but what it is is Wise . the beast has attained his present form after generations of adaptations and experiences . He does not remember all the feelings he felt but what remains is a fine mist of emotions , kind of like residue / debris of all the events that took place .This data and knowledge accumulates so that new individuals never have to start from zero , easing the path of Learning and Progress .

But we know there are always outliers . People to whom social norms do not apply exist .Those people might be better off on their own , discovering and building up their world view from the ground up .So the question is who can correctly recognize these outliers ? there is no such authority in the world which is not itself the part of the beehive and everyone is embedded in the system .

Guess then its just the sad reality of life that everyone is encouraged to give in and just listen to this faceless beast and to conform to opinions of the dumb and ignorant .

Standing on the shoulder of this giant can be rewarding but one has to first scale this enormous beast through pursuit of knowledge , information and experience . and only when you see him from a higher dimension is when you can truly tame , control and harness him . But what do i know , i am just a first year undergraduate student who just woke up .





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