Stolen from my favorite web comic
Individuals are microcosms of society. Emotions are like the masses--excitable, diverse, fickle. The mind is like the ruling class, endlessly deliberating on how to deal with their subjects. Some people are police states, suppressing their emotions, punishing subsersive elements, their militant ideals goosestepping in place. Others are like monarchies, full of pomp and ceremony, with royal heads of state presiding with laissez faire nonchalance. There are those who resemble anarchy, whose non-constitutions leave them in a perpetual state of chaos. Then there are the republics. Democratic souls with a system of majority rule, representation for all, where all the body's impulses are given a voice. But sometimes their emotions act like confused Florida voters and end up botching the whole decision making process. And of course, the potheads of the world represent a sort of fuzzy blissed out utopia, a place we all like to visit every now and then, but wouldn't want to get stranded there. Kinda like Amsterdam.
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