Defections and alliances
It is interesting and instructive to watch the gale of defections and the consequent alliances sweeping through the land.
This will continue until every gladiator can find his level and the company in which he is at home.
The law of association stipulates it.
It is called the Law of Attraction of Homogenous Species, also known as the Law of Similarity.
Birds of the same feather must flock together.
Each will live and swing among his own kind and in the environment that corresponds with his nature and will make for his development and advancement, or fall in his chosen direction.
We just have to go through this patch as a nation.
The formlessness these throw up is ugly and harrowing, no doubt.
It will continue for a while depending on attitudes, but not until the participants are filled with disgust as a consequence of their emerging maturity.
It is the degree of maturity that determines the level of standards, also of behaviour.
It is an immutable and self-acting law of Nature that governs all associations and relationships.
It requires no effort for drinkers to find themselves.
It similarly requires no effort for the noble minded to draw towards one another to form an association.
It is when associations are formed that belief systems come in tow which we call ideologies.
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