The Hypocrisy of Advocacy in Numbers

——The Hypocrisy of Advocacy in Numbers——

A group has no voice; members of a group trade their voices for the dumb, basic power of physical numbers - cheap, cowardly intimidation. A throng can only ever form around a core of fear, and fear can never result in anything other than more—and worse—problems for everyone.

A group cannot cultivate or participate in rational discourse, because a group can only speak through a puppet - an appointed individual or individuals that will always convey individual agendas and biases in any attempt at reason.

Next time you throw your lot in with any group of people acting under hysterical and misguided directives to "change things," do so knowing that your participation comes at the cost of any possible ideal solution to whichever problem you—now-falsely—purport to care so strongly about.

Only a truly apathetic person would ever trade his or her own voice—the only possible tool by which a person can manifest a tangible and useful identity—for any lesser compromise.

All social activism is folly and cowardice - and those who cannot learn to recognize their ignorance will inevitably doom the lot of us. What you want is not possible within a group - and society is a group. Either shut the fuck up about it and live in the bed you've made for yourselves, or do something real to change it by bettering yourself; don't hide in a crowd for protection, and don't pretend that the rest of the world—or anyone in it—is in any way obligated to change on your behalf. Social existence is a compromise. You have a right to express your rational ideas of how incredibly hollow and useless such an existence may be at times - but unless you are truly willing to forgo all reliance upon any social mechanisms whatsoever, you are a hypocrite if you challenge ANY of them with your own individual agenda(s).

If you call yourself an advocate for any idea, yet still allow fear to influence your actions... you are useless even to yourself - and you will inevitably and absolutely harm the "cause" of any otherwise-rational concept to which you attach yourself.