Subsumption; or, The Hermeneutics of Plurality.

Plurality. In its direct sense, it merely describes a multitude of something. Four apples, twenty people, forty horses. Those multiple things then become a singular again; a batch, a council, a herd. In the context of the human consciousness, it is the opposite of an individualistic, 'one body, one mind' perception of the self. Plurality is to be made up of multiple parts that make up the whole. One person made of many people, which becomes a system; the group becomes the singular. What is to be said of a system of personalities all being forced to channel their inputs through a single output? Twenty figurative mouths are filtered into one physical mouth that can interact with the world outside the body. In the world these mouths are forced to interact with, there is even more filtering; rules, guidelines, social consequences for running against or within the written and unwritten contracts of 'civilized society.' What is said, then, of a collective within one individual who must…