
The Rat Master
by Rod Remelin
June 5th 2010
Humans in the main — by immersing themselves into self deceit, wishful
thinking, and idolatry — so thoroughly blind themselves to the harshness
of this world; that they are unable to deflect, or resist, the seeming cogent
suggestions, and ramblings of the mad men who run it.
In the course of what constitutes the daily activities, and
affairs of the many, there is a restless feeling of bothersome urges — plaguing
the mind with a never-ending stream of uncertainties.
Layer upon layer of endless labyrinths have been designed, and built for
mankind — to keep him as a rat in a maze, such that whatever course he might finish
another awaits; somehow different, but still needing to be negotiated over
and over again, just the same. One might ponder that for this to be be the case for such
a long period of
time, that many more then actually do, would have by this time, wised up
to the futility of such mindless and
pointless running here and there about themselves. Fact is, the majority
never do become aware of it — and for them, still desperate to finish the maze, their
only thoughts surrounding those requiring the working out of which
turn to make; the end being it's own reward, and backtracking the punishment.
The God of this world is the Rat Master — having passed himself off as
all knowing, and seeing, with genuine concern for his mice — has managed over
the course of time, to convince the many that the maze is their
only possible refuge, and to imagine otherwise, will with all certainty, relegate
them to the abandoned outback of a 'life without the herd'.