Why Great Souls Remain Without Friends

Why do great souls remain without friends or with few friends? There are several reasons, one being that they enjoy their private lives, by themselves, not finding fulfillment in a crowd.

The most significant reason that they remain without friends comes from being involuntarily excluded the identity groups that they spring from--be it a group affiliation by race, sexual orientation, national status, religion of origin, political affiliation, communal or work cliques, etc.--the vast majority of persons making up any identity groups are nonindividuators, low achievers, groupthinking-conformists with high popularity indexes and loads of supporters and friends that also are mediocrities that are well-liked.

Group insiders punish those that have abandoned the group, or are still part of the group, but do not live with strict obedience to its norms and expectations.

Group members still friendly to the great souls are issued an either-or ultimatum: either sever all ties with and support for the great souls effective immediatel or suffer heavy punishments like revoked communal connections, painful ostracism and being expelled from  the group too.

These confronted group members are basically cowards and basically selfish like the rest of us. Thus, when confronted with such dire punitive consequences for being kind and friendly toward social outcasts unfairly targeted and excluded, most of them take the easy path, and betray their great-souled friends to gain favor and re-admission into the identity group in question.

The independence, the self-sufficiency and the very presence and discomforting existence of the great-souled members inside their groups does put pressure on other group members to grow towards making something of their lives too.

The groupists seek to isolate, deny power, success, material and emotional support to the great souls in order that they are driven into exile, into madness and suicide--or at least are so weakened and beaten down that they grow silent, and write, philosophize and paint no more--in effect, the groups win and the great souls are subdued and defeated.

For the groupists, preserving solidarity and group power is the primary objective, and all else pales in comparison.

With my Mavellonialist faith, I have introduced the concept that the average citizen, that indivduating, living angel and great soul, that anarchist supercitizen and zoon politicon extradordinaaire at the canton level and on the state and federal level will serve as a meaning system and training program to offer all citizens the chance to maverize as great souls while still enjoying a robust, healthy social life.

The great souls will individual-live primarily but not exclusively as they group-live intermittently when it is beneficial for the community and themselves--going into and out of group settings as they choose without anyone much noticing or caring.