The masses do not want to be free.
From the subtitle of this piece, you might conclude (who could blame you?) that I’m a bit pessimistic about freeing The Grand CollectiveTm *. Nothing could be further from the truth; We find ourselves facing insurmountable obstructions and things appear pessimistic. Do not disrepair my brothers and sisters the great enlightenment is upon us**. God has showed me the way out of this madness we find currently find ourselves in. I’m eternally optimistic about our potential as a species. Look around and marvel at the amazing achievements we’ve accomplished, despite the fact that we often act like a bunch of idiotic monkeys.
Yet, the masses (humans self organized or self-identify as single entity, e.g., countries, companies, political movements, religious organizations, cannot be freed and do not want be free even if we could free them. This is the my current assumptions based on the following observations***;
- The masses often do not want Freedom.
Individuals frequently and voluntarily join systems where conformity, hierarchy, and constraint are central features. Clubs, political tribes, corporations, and even social media communities often function on rules that trade autonomy for belonging, stability, or identity. Many people willingly accept limitations if those limitations provide meaning, safety, or social recognition.
Freedom, at the individual level, requires responsibility, uncertainty, and effort—conditions that not everyone seeks all the time. The assumption that large groups collectively desire maximal freedom misunderstands the psychological bargain many people make: less uncertainty in exchange for less autonomy.
2. Evolution Built Us for Small Tribes, Not Planet-Scale Societies
For most of human history, our ancestors lived in communities of dozens or hundreds, occasionally a few thousand. The instincts that evolved in that environment, loyalty to the tribe, suspicion of outsiders, emotional decision-making under uncertainty, were extraordinarily useful in the savannas of Africa and the forests of early human settlement.
But today, those same instincts operate in a world of more than eight billion people. Our tribal wiring now interacts with global media, algorithmic amplification, and massive political and economic systems. The result is predictable: large groups behave less like thoughtful collectives and more like emotional weather systems—powerful, reactive, and difficult to steer.
Therefore, my conclusion is that “The MassesTM” are an un-freeable abstraction because of this deep evolutionary trait that helped us become the dominant animal on the planet. As our external environment has changed this trait creates a state I call “Malignant Corporation”. This is a state of corporation between humans that produces outcomes that are less than optimal for the individual and the masses. I’m sure you can add examples over here.
Because of this evolutionary Mal-adaptation The MassesTM;
- Cannot be reasoned with. They operate on narrative, symbol, and emotion, not collective logic.
- Cannot be appealed to. (See the decades-long, largely futile struggles to rally the masses around critical issues like digital privacy or the Right to Repair. The argument often loses to convenience or the faint promise of security.)
- Cannot be led, coerced, or educated into freedom. Any centralizing force claiming to “free the masses” inevitably becomes a new locus of power, demanding the very submission it promised to overthrow.
History repeatedly demonstrates that movements promising “freedom for all” often replace one set of constraints with another, because the structural behavior of large groups resists stable, sustained autonomy***.
While large groups behave unpredictably, the individual human being almost universally craves some degree of autonomy: the ability to choose, to create, to speak, to own, to repair, to learn, to build. Individuals respond strongly to tools that expand their personal agency, even when institutions resist change.
Like I said earlier god has showed me a different path. Consider this my introduction to a new type of voluntary human participation game “The Prospera Game Experiment”. Let free ourselves by freeing all us starting with you.
* The grand collective is the name of all participant of the Prospera game Experiment .0.0.1 Alpha.
* *The name of the alpha period when the first free participants of the Prospera Experiment Tm began playing. It covers the period of about 36 months.
*** Research will conducted to asses the validity of these assumptions.