The Political Organism
People align on political lines of identity to enjoy the influence they perceive they gain from that alignment over the governmental-organism. Much like a nesting-doll has many layers for which each smaller doll fits within, and only when taken completely apart can the craftsmanship be fully appreciated, the nature of the organisms for which identity dictates alignment feeds higher orders of identity in a similar fashion. The perception one holds of their surroundings directly influence their alignment on the political spectrum. Core values aid in that alignment mechanism. These core values are personalized but are traceable to a larger orchestration of smaller forms of identity that feed the individualized “self-identity”.
The family unit helps shape the political alignment of an individual just as social situational-experiences, which reinforce or break down held belief systems, tend to push a person to align with one political party or movement or another. All political parties and movements are geared at gaining approval and are always attempting to recruit new members into their “groupthink”. The concept of groupthink is applicable to the formation of political parties and movements in that they are selling a mind-state. Political parties are competing energies, all fighting for control over the governmental-organism. They play on your emotionally-charged, core values to force alignment.
For instance, if someone were to have a core value that dictated that “abortion is immorally wrong”, they would have a tough time aligning with a political party that had “pro-choice” as one of its core values. They may agree on every other core value for that political party, but depending on the importance they place on their own core values will most definitely dictate which party they chose to identify with. In America, we have two dominant political parties currently. People are free to align with one of the dominant two, but are also free to identify with one of the independent parties, or they can even choose to not identify at all. That is the freedom of choice, or the illusion of freedom.
The power of the political organism is directly attributed to the size of its population. The power is in the numbers, and without the ability for the organism to evolve as society evolves, we would see the introduction of new political parties every few years. Conformity and alignment and the notion that we are free to stand with a collection of the collective-human organism to make changes to the governmental-organism shows how all these organismic systems are interconnected. Identity plays a powerful role in how we see our existence and life itself. How we identify, does matter. Some choose to identify as an individual first, and others lose sight of the commonality we all share. Which brings me to the next organism of control, which is that of the corporation.
The Corporate Organism
By its very definition, the corporate organism assumes the role of an individual. The business corporation takes on a life of its own once it is fully recognized and the mechanism of control is defined. Comprised of workers that work together to provide a service or to produce a product, the entity itself has one main goal, and that goal is to influence the buying behaviors of the rest of the collective-human organism to secure a constant state of growth. These organisms rely on patronage from the public, but have been known to discount and devalue the people that they rely on, which is their workers, in the pursuit of the profit that drives their actions.
When a company decides to lay off 20,000 workers in pursuit of that profit, they place the value of money above the value of the humans that enable their existence. The rest of the collective-human organism does not question these types of actions as the corporate entity has done an excellent job at convincing the organism that these types of actions are permissible, if profit stands to be realized. Most of the corporate organisms today have followed the model of acquiring their product at the cheapest rate allowable, and that translates to the cost of labor being a prime candidate for manipulation.
You see, the organism relies on people, but there is not a mutually-beneficial dynamic where they need each other on an even level, so the corporate organism exerts dominance over the individuals within its ranks. The organism does not care if the individual worker can provide for themselves, as that is not a variable in the calculations made when setting their internal pay scales. Somewhere in the growing stage for these organisms, they lose sight of how their workforce fits into their existence. They assume the role of an individual and forget that they are a collection of people.
Further, the corporate organism takes part in election processes by giving money to political candidates who are running for a governmental-seat. Here we can see how the corporate organism is intertwined with the higher-levels of identity leading up to the nationalistic identity. Governments regulate corporations and have laws that keep the corporations playing within a set of rules. So, it is natural for them to place a stake in who is elected, for which position, and where it is beneficial for a corporate organism to do so. This organism can be a benefit, but more times than not, is more of a detriment to the collective-human organism as it desires to manipulate the organism by implanting concepts such as consumerism into the individual mind-state. Next, I will discuss the smaller-groupings of identity that lead to the division we see in our societal systems with the construct of “social organisms”.
Social Organisms
Society dictates to us to “get in where we fit in”. It divides us into smaller-groupings of identity based on many variables including; economic achievement, religious ideology, ethnic-background, geographical location, etc. Really, the way in which we identify within society is a product of our individuality. We choose to identify with a set of people due to a perceived commonality which further illustrates our natural desire to gain acknowledgment from the rest of the organism. We work to gain acceptance and then start the process of aligning our viewpoints with the collective-consciousness that exists within that held identity. We begin to think alike, act alike, and react alike.
Groupthink begins the process of directing the outward expression of the social-organism. This is commonly seen within the societal structure with how an individual reacts within their environment. Individuals typically latch onto the mindset of the collective-consciousness of the social-organism of control and mimic the behaviors that are viewed as acceptable. They become the identity of the social-organism which they are a part of. Identity, once again, shows us how powerful it can become with some social-organisms. Mass political movements are social-organisms that are working to achieve a common goal. Political parties and political affiliations dictate a mind-state that people mimic which alters their perception of the world around them. This contributes to the construction of social-organisms.
Now, how does the social organism fit into the myriad of discussed organisms of control? The way in which we define our individuality is directly attributed towards our alignment within the societal structure which is comprised of many social-organisms which dictates people’s reactionary processes to their environment. Like a cascading waterfall of control, the social-organism is all-inclusive. This means that all of us define our individuality through interpreting social-organisms from which we chose to identify with. The blueprint, from one person to another, is something that we derive our individual identity from. A thought experiment would be to just sit and think about what makes you, you. You may be surprised at how much your mind will want to show you an archetype instead of relying on your personalized experiences. We are molded into our identities by aligning with the blueprints we see around us.
Social-organisms are, by far, the most powerful organisms of control. The consciousness that exists within this matrix of control, is shared amongst those that identify within that grouping. Just as the individual learns norms within their family structure from an early age, so does the individual learn what is acceptable and what is not within each grouping of identity along the chain of identities that exist. The number of identities is not unique to just one set. A person can have multiple social-identities and can even go so far as to change their identity as their environment changes or when it is beneficial to do so. This brings me to the final organism of control, which is that of the individual self.
This is a writing segment for The Codex Primum. These writings are created on this platform and I intend on publishing the finished product somewhere in the future. I am a writer by trade, but these beliefs are where I have found myself. I hope you enjoyed the mental exercise this hopefully evoked, and hopefully this provoked a new train of thought, if even for just a moment. Look for more to come in the following days, and follow me. I want to share this journey with whoever is willing to listen...
~Deep1111