Cornered

"To protest in the name of morality against 'excesses' or 'abuses' is an error that hints at active complicity. There are no 'abuses' or 'excesses' here, simply an all pervasive system." -Simone de Beauvoir
As my knowledge of the system increases with my careful study the scale, scope and organization becomes intoxicating in its complexity. People spend whole lifetimes absorbed in the minutest aspects of our complicated world, still not even exhausting that one field of study. This leads to a sectarian society in which many people are on completely different but parallel paths, all under the umbrella of the system. We all find our little corner to inhabit and operate within; which in order to do so we must tacitly embrace the order which permits and facilitates it. The reality of this situation is in no way more clearly demonstrated than in the fact that the political and corporate powers that rule this land need never justify their actions in any rational format. We all know, on some level, where this fantastic wealth that creates our little corners comes from, and thus can only criticize individual aspects that we consider 'immoral' and never the system which neccesitates it. This allows people to not take that virtually impossible mental jump from 'I want change' to 'I will change'. Especially when one realizes in horror that any direct action to oppose the beast which you have found ruling your life makes you the enemy of virtually everyone you know. Their is a way out, but not through ideology or compromise. In a compromise between good and evil only evil can ever benefit. What is 'evil' you might ask- that which destroys life. Don't be afraid when confronted with the monolithic power of the herd, for it is always ready to change course, but the prerequisite is to come out of our little corners and forsake them.
"There are no chains of houses; there are no crowds of men. The colossal diagram of streets and houses is an illusion, the opium dream of a speculative builder. Each of these men is supremely solitary and supremely important to himself. Each of these houses stands in the centre of the world." --G. K. Chesterton