The Society Is Just An Individual
What, I wondered, did he mean by “society”?
The plural of human beings?
Where was the substance of this thing called “society”?
“Don’t you mean yourself?”
Came at the tip of my tongue
‘Society won’t stand for it.’
‘It’s not society. You’re the one who won’t stand for it - right?’
‘If you do such a thing society will make you suffer for it’
‘It’s not society. It’s you, isn’t it?’
‘Before you know it, you’ll be ostracized by society.’
‘It’s not society. You’re going to do the ostracizing, aren’t you?’
Maybe it's just a Philosophical conviction, the belief:
" What is society but an individual?"
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