By that time, we had started manufacturing several identities. We had distributed ourselves in those different s(h)elves. Old conservatives and humanitarians protested for a long time, but nobody heeded to them. We had already developed a process to generate wishes and desires mostly by copying and merging from the grand dream-base. In this process we had learnt that desires of one identity are not really independent. But one also can make a collection of dependencies and choose from there. We had done that. Till that point, it was controlled chaos. A leap in dimensionality and degrees of freedom.

Freedom. We had always sought that. In the ancient historical archives, one can find the annals of freedom : from religion, from state, from economic oppressors, from morality and from corruption, from poverty, from wretchedness. And these are not all. If you can recall the oft quoted line from the legendary Moscan Poet, Miklos Balazs :

Rhetorics, verurteile ich Sie.
Es ist nicht ich dieser Sie Kette zum Stein.
Es ist mein ashen Zunge.
Wenn Sie aber sind, nur link
würde ich eher auf Ruhe hocken.
Aber leider, sind Sie in diese
Linien von meinen, auch gekrochen.
Rhetorics, verurteile ich Sie.

it's apparent how people at the turn of the milennium suffered agony for not being able to destroy the image of words that they themselves have rendered. They sought freedom from falacious, impotent expressions.

Finally it was our turn to strive for freedom. Freedom from ourselves, our binding identities. And everything was going as planned in our experiment, until the Pseudos appeared.

There has been a lot of discussion in Active Forum. Mosly people, it seems believe that I am responsible for this new Pseudo hazard. Here I regretfully admit that I had unknowingly played a role in the Pseudo Revolution. I'd like to describe how it all came about.

Pseudo is a mimicry and extension of our shelved selves. They came in a jocular fashion. Instead of deriving an identity through combination of several others, they started using existing identities. That created much confusion. I still remember, ( Pseudos have just entered the floor then) there was a huge debate between Acilino and Akilina, regarding whether these new entrants could be classified as art-forms like us. I'll quote Akilina here :

There is a sharp distinction between existing art forms and the pseudos. When you demand that every new art form is imitation of previously existing art forms, you must consider the granularity of imitation. Fusing elementary assumptions and ideas of several entities is one thing and arbitrarily creating facsimiles of prevalent existence is another.

But nobody listened to her (including me). We dismissed her logic as materialistic. We fiercely objected to her use of the word elementary. There is no such hierarchy, we argued. There is no whole and no part. We heavily encouraged the Pseudos. There we committed the mistake.

This recognition from the incumbent genres, resulted in a population explosion of the neophytes. The chaos now took an indefinite proportion. In the overall pandominium, I observed basically 3 levels of Pseudos :

1. Commonplace Pseudos --- These used to steal identities used by us. They were the most confusing ones. Because the concerned identies were getting modified outside the system of the true owner. This resulted in a lot of contradictions in the identities. Some of the owners among us, had to leave their affected identities once and for all.

2. Dream Pseudos --- These entities specialized in mimicing our dreams. They unlike Identity Pseudos, didn't affect the existing identities from inside. But by alluring them with the in-built desires and dreams, they created malfunction in the system. This resulted in many of the identities becoming voluntarily inactive or confused.

3. Abstract Pseudos --- The most harmful of all of them. Any abstract concept, idea, theory they used to pounce on. Their strength was their ability to manipulate general philosophies through imperceptible alteration, juxtaposition or truncation in the word sequence. Most harmful, because they at times hyptonised a whole class of identities.

The most fearful part was the game. The Pseudos are within us, any of us, may be allof us. By looking at the choice of topics and the style of imitation, is it possible to detect who is playing who? Are there any styles at all, or are they also blind imitation of some other which is again...