Hello Friends.
Sometimes, I like to write from personal experience: I change the names to protect the innocent, haha.
There was a man called Horatio who made his way and would speak to anyone about his thoughts. Gradually, he hit upon this topic of "walking alone and being true to yourself," expanded his thinking, and shared that view. One hot day in late spring, he sat at the fountain in the center of a lovely park that many people enjoyed. Many poets and musicians recited and performed there, and even artists would set up an easel to paint.
An older man stands on the edge of the fountain, shouting out a warning not to follow the military-industrial complex. The crowd before him reacts with every emphatic gesture and pays attention. Horatio passes, and some people listening to the old man turn and follow him instead.
Some weeks later, a crowd would gather whenever Horatio spoke and even chant his name. Suddenly, he realized that although he had striven to walk alone, he had done it uniquely for a time. It was jeopardy. As the crowd chanted his name, he raised his hand for silence, and the crowd complied. Then, he knelt, and they knelt before him.
He began to speak: "This is all wrong. Start going your way, dear friends. Please do not follow me.
The crowd chanted, "Your way or no way," continuously for an hour. Then, Horatio wept and ran away, never to be seen again.
The moral of the story? Most people want to belong to something somewhere and need to be a part of it something more significant than themself. Like Leming, they would join together and jump off a cliff, quoting Thelma and Louise.1
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_%26_Louise The movie.