Introducing the MereCog

I am introducing a new English noun: MereCog.

A MereCog is anyone who is not Themme but labors for Theire ends. MereCogs are units whose sole purpose is to serve the Machine. The Machine is the totality of material and concept upon which Theire lives are built.

Theye live palatially. Theye consume lavishly. Theye travel luxuriously. Theye are able to do all this solely through the agency of the MereCog. whose collective effort builds and maintains that which Theye so obviously covet and waggle in the faces of their inferiors.

The properties of the MereCog are as follow:

1. Numerous
2. Largely fungible, though not universally so
3. Inferior to Themme in attitude and position
4. Mostly ignorant of their own status as MereCogs
5. Mostly uncaring that they are MereCogs, to the extent they realize their status.
6. Mostly unwilling to change their status, wanting better, but not enough to make the changes, often hoping or even demanding someone make the alterations for them.
7. Mostly well-trained to their stations as MereCogs
8. Most often refusing to think beyond the metes and bounds of their roles as MereCogs 
9. Willing to fight to maintain the status quo between Themme and MereCogs
10. Willing to be consumed for the glory of the Machinery of their servitude and destruction
11. Willing and eager to destroy those who are neither Themme or MereCog
12. Venomously hateful of the independently intelligent, self-respecting man
13. Violently unwilling relinquish the comfort of the familiarity of their status as MereCogs
14. Unwilling to break free from the assumptions that lock their thinking into the MereCog track.
15. Glory in their status as belonging to something greater than themselves.
16. Fearful and hateful of freedom
17. Often "nice" and/or possessing otherwise seemingly good human qualities. 

The MereCog is the most dangerous entity on the planet because he will do his master's bidding without equivocation, hesitation, compunction, mercy, or intelligence beyond that required for the task at hand.  Taken as a whole, they are the proverbial "mob" and the "useful idiots" to which numerous progressives, as well as Marxists of note, have made reference.

The MereCog's need to "belong" as a means of assuaging the terrors that this world holds for him carries the strength of the ship-wrecked man who clings to his chunk of jetsam for the fear of drowning.  He is one of the most hopelessly dependent creatures in existence, all the while deeming himself free, possessed of self and, ironically, independent.

The MereCog is generally peaceable, largely agreeable, mostly friendly, and often of a sweet disposition, so long as the comfort of his familiar role as MereCog is not threatened.  Of particular noteworthiness is the danger the MereCog poses to anyone challenging his sense of belonging.  This danger is orders of magnitude amplified when the threat is affirmed by the master, and triply so where an official call to action is made.

MereCogs, when given the master's permission or command, will destroy anyone and anything they perceive as threatening the comfort and familiarity of their roles as such. They will do so with a single-minded viciousness such that neither home, hearth, nor child is spared.

History is rife with examples of the dangerous nature of the MereCog when wielded in numbers by the master as a weapon against those unfortunate enough to meet with his displeasure.  Such conglomerations of MereCogs may take the form of well-regulated armies, or simple and largely inarticulate, angry mobs.  They have been endlessly effective as tools for the furtherance of subjugation and of destruction for Themme.

Look around and see if you can identify the properties of the MereCog in the people around you.  I believe it serves one well to become familiar with the larger dangers surrounding himself.  The MereCog presents the greatest threat of all to the free man.

Until next time, please accept my best wishes.