Didn’t know where to put this . . .
Look around at the world. What do you see?
People. There are people everywhere, doing everything, keeping this world turning. They churn and toil all day long to appease their bosses, who work to appease their higher-ups, and so on and so forth. Everyone is trying to please someone else. The chain goes up and up and never seems to stop. It’s a cycle, worldwide, that never stops. There is no control – it’s a maddening, constantly changing webs of interconnected industries, linked economies, and interdependent nations. The world works in a strict system.
And that system is never unbroken. To break that cycle, to not care, would be considered as either delinquency or roguishness. No one cares about the delinquent. They’re the invalids, the ones that couldn’t make a difference if they tried. They spend their entire lives in their parent’s basement, leaching off their friends, family, and the society that they see as useless. They are sad creatures, lonely, bitter, depressed, and lazy. They make no ripples in the cycle and they simply fade out of it.
The rogues, however, are dangerous. They are intelligent and savvy. They are strong and quick. Their minds are as strong as anyone else’s. They answer to no authority and live in secrecy. They have no leaders and no go-to men. They work the system and they have power.
Pull back this view of the world. What do you see now? The people are still milling, seemingly pointlessly, but now they’re different. They’re grouped, in herds, in manageable fashions. They are Republicans, they’re Democrats; they’re liberal, they’re conservative; they’re members of the town council, they work for a corporation, they even go to PTA meetings. They’re herds, waiting for a Shepard.
Rogues know how to use power. They know they can’t control every individual person. The cults, the religious gurus – they control, but their control is short-lived because they control individuals. Rogues control organizations. They trace the organization up the cycle to the head, the link between everything else in the repeating patterns of the world. The find the links and they push. They test the links. They pull and snap and pluck the links. They show the “higher-ups” that they have power over them.
Power over the leaders equals power over the group. Power over a group equals power over the people. And then they control.
It’s a paradox, however. They work to their own goals, controlling only to an intention. They push but they influence without direction involvement. They staunch the flow of supplies to one company and encourage the supply of a different material, all in order to push a new product. They don’t answer to someone, but they stimulate the cycle at the same time. They do not appease, yet they can’t help but do it at times. Power, however, mends all wounds and broken ideals.
The rogues are dangerous.
Are you outside the cycle?