Perjuring oneself has no true meaning if lying is no longer morally incorrect. It is the thing to do.

It is a brave and brand new world and as one who has come before might be expected to think, I do lately think that all is now cackled in complete abundance. They have emerged the victors.

What once seemed folly, then merely foolish, has turned to fact. For those seeking such an outcome, well, patience has surely prevailed and that outcome is what did, indeed, emerge from all that was their plan.

There is no longer the need for a majority in anything. Just a controlling interest that has, as its final objective, no objective beyond simple survival. Eat or be eaten. It used to be called a monopoly and was strictly guarded against but now such talk is no longer allowed. No competing viewpoints welcomed there.

Factions rule but with no power that is not given to them. Used, they betray little desire to rise above any of it. To exist and continue to do so. Eat or be eaten.

Individuals gather strength in the storm but it too is short-lived. Individuals are easily replaced in the new system and factions have no power other than that decreed upon them. Majorities do not rule as they are no longer recognized or given substance.

If a man had a word true to share and if that word was given boost by association within the group and if that group was further elevated by support within a larger and larger faction then, well, majority opinion was reached and opinion could then, by due process alone, become law and be dutifully adhered to by all.

No longer.

Eat or be eaten. Live and let die.

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Time has a way they say. Surely it must. All that has come before can come again, don’t you think? I did.

Eat or be eaten? Sure. That has always been the case- at least up until the time we decided to get civilized. Only the lowlier animals still follow that losing policy, yes?

What could possibly come of it? How might we better our condition other than by natural selection? It is they who hold so strictly that evolutionary postulate.

Why did I speak that way? Because I did not understand the words.

Why did I not follow the law? Because of how I was developed.

Why did I have no concern for what had come before? Because I want change.

Why did I have no idea of what might come then after? Because I really did not care to know. Or care at all.

Live and let die. Eat or be eaten.

Those who profess to care more really are those who have no room reserved to care less. They are the ones who eat. They live.

It is plain to see what has become. And even those who claim to resist do not. They simply profit in all ways possible.

Which is worse- the wolf that waits at the door; the one that hides along the path; or the one that bays at the moon? As far as I can tell each remains a wolf.

I no longer reside in a majority and I am most unwelcome in any faction. My individualism has been taken and I am left with little more than what they have given.

Eat or be eaten; live and let die.

Survival of the fittest is what they say.