The Duplicity of the Horde

Having spent the majority of my day working on my 1000 word English research essay, on dualism in To Kill a Mockingbird (a novel) and Breach (a film), I have been thinking a heck of a lot about the ideas of dualism and hypocrisy. I have decided that I shall share some thoughts on this with you.

To start off, lets get some definitions from my good friend Dictionary.com.

Hypocrisy (noun) - a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.

Horde (noun) - a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.

Dualism (noun) - the state of being dual or consisting of two parts; division into two.

So in other words, a hypocrite says one thing and does another, a horde is a large crowd (so basically a fancy word for a lot of people), and a dualist is someone who's life (or part of it) is split into two contradicting parts (most often their stated beliefs and their actually actions).

I would absolutely love to sit here and say to you that I am not, have never, and will never be a hypocrite in any way, shape or form. But that would be one very large lie. No one goes through life never once being a hypocrite on some level, or without practising dualism in some area of there life at some stage.

Without thinking it, people practise dualism all the time. The most common form being that they proclaim to believe one thing, yet their actions show another. I'm sure you don't need examples to know what I'm talking about. Everyone has done it.

You may be wondering what my point is. Well, I don't have one. Not exactly.

No one likes it when people do such things as say one thing and do another. No one wants to admit it when they do. You generally don't plan on doing it either.

I've done it. Many times. I wish I didn't, but hey, I'm not perfect. I'm sorry to say that you aren't, either.

Now, I'm going to make a generalisation. I don't like generalisations, in general, but I'm going to anyway.

In general, I'd say that most people these days are dualists. Quite a few do it to large extents. It seems that everyone these days claims to believe one thing, but in secret do another. It makes me wonder just what is real, what is truth.

So without going to incredible depth today, I just want to challenge you. Are you real? Do you live what you proclaim to believe? Think about it for a while.