Hunted

When a great soul has suffered much from the mob, the joiners, the nonindividuators--his enemies--that surround him, he tends to isolate himself, and be very wary and suspicious of their attempts to get close to him (His enemies can only hurt him if they can get under his careful defenses so they can get right next to him, to hit, hurt and wound him, perhaps fatally.) so they can further isolate and demonize this great soul to break him, end his political career, get him socially disgraced, silenced, arrested, perhaps imprisoned, even killed. This jealous, enraged mob will become more and more furious as he refuses to submit or surrender. They go into baying yips of rage and frustration as he goes on and on, refuting their hostility and program. They become more and more cruel and ruthless, willing and eager to be as vicious and terroristic as needed to break him and end his movement advocating human liberation. As the campaign by the howling mob ramps up, the fence straddlers that are semi-friendly or even more friendly than that do provide the ostracized, lonely great soul with some friendship, sympathy and support. The mob is cunning, and they identify the people around the great soul that provide comfort and companionship for him. The mob then approaches the fence straddlers and intimidates them, bluntly warning them to betray, spy on, attack or forsake the great soul. The mob warn them that they are making it easier for him to withstand their pressure, that they have been making it too easy for him. Either the fence straddles openly join him, or abandon him, or they will face the same harsh punishment that he is reeking. They are instinctively clever. They know that the fence straddles are weak, selfish and cowardly, terrified of being punished as the great soul is being punished. The fence straddlers will of course buckle and abandon the great soul so that he is utterly isolated. The fence straddlers will run for cover and the great soul will stand alone against the entire community or society. At this point the great soul is completely alone, but he will not apologize, he will not relent, he will not confess, he will go on never surrendering. He works for God and that is his calling, the howling mob to the contrary.