Individualism

For the next day, I thought about how often people move, and what kinds of effect this has on relationships. People move for work, relationships, beginning and ending. Any major transition in consumer life involves a move. Work is placed away from the home, so that people meet others from other parts of the city, and spend less time around those they live near.
For people without children it is even easier to keep them unsettled. With a diverse enough population, people can not get to know each other well enough to form lasting meaningful relationships. The differences in lifestyle choices and cultural beliefs make it impossible for people to get close enough to create strong social connections.
People move to different groups between grades in school, between schools, between work and play. Each person being different and unique enough, so that others eventually find something problematic. To organize effectively, people have to have a common belief system, a common goal, a common social framework for explaining the world. Much like they have here on this island. I started to see how double sided his words are. They practice a social cohesion among their own people, which they do not allow others to have. I wondered, if people organized on a communal, cultural level, if they would be as effective as the parasites on this island.
I asked him about this later and he said, “We are superior to other humans, we don’t need to be trained or guided to promote individualism. We know we are superior, and we know what qualities to look for in a superior person. It may look like we are united, but we are all individuals with our own wealth and power, which we have all built ourselves.”
I laughed inside. They do not build anything themselves. They pay people to build things for them. From houses to corporations, workers and servants build the things that rich people claim credit for.
After a while, he started explaining again, how important it is to promote individualism among the masses. I felt like he was restating my thoughts. He said, “Promoting individualism starts with diversity in close proximity. The greater the diversity of people around an individual means they are less likely to relate to those around them. They feel it is better to be alone than to try to form close bonds, with people who hold different cultural values and expectations. In another generation people will be so mistrusting of groups of people, that they will embrace individualism. They will blame groups for all the bad things in the world. It will be individualism at it’s finest. Everyone working in their own self interest.”
When he said this last bit, I was surprised at myself for how I was looking at everything he said before. I saw him controlling people to disrupt and oppress them. He sees it as liberating them. It was here that I started to see, everything that I believe is bad in the world, he see as good. The ultimate good. Doing God’s will, as he says sometimes. Now I know he means it. They see themselves as godly, sitting here in Heaven, and directing the actions of the world.