People crave sex, food, staying alive and moving with the herd.
Then I come along offering them vegetables from the garden that I am tending. I write to them: eat these vegetables and you will grow up to be a big, strong, imaginative, high-performing individualist.
They look at me, and ask, "What is the downside?" I answer: "The downside is that you have to forsake herding with others. You must live apart from them much of the time so your time, focus and energy is centered of self-development, not socializing."
Stone silence is the response. These are decent, normal, law-abiding people. They look at themselves and each other, and respond that all of their relationships are healthy and enjoyable, so they will not be abandoning them any time soon. Their conclusion: herding is normal, good, empathetic, social and desirable.
From their point of view, being a loner is abnormal, evil, selfish, asocial and undesirable.
God is good. God is a loner, a super-developed individualist. God wants us to live like De does. In light of this instruction, be an individuated loner is wonderfully abnormal--but one day will be the norm--good, empathetic towards others and the self, social and desirable.
Excessive herding is a bad, stunting norm enslaving billions, selfish and selfless as a conformity mediocrity, asocial and undesirable.
With this context provided, it is quite understandable that I am trying to climb a formidable vertical cliff, trying to get to the top of the mesa, to urge others to come live apart too.
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