Society Only By Name- Part Seven: Post-Darling Complex

99) The pop-culturalists only care for the trend. Everything else, everyone else, serves as a means to an end or as collateral damage. They may want to be more considerate, for the darlings they alter conditions for are imperative to them after they fall from Heaven. The fallen, aspiring Übermensch of the pseudo-society has an epilogue. This is what I dub the post-darling complex.

100) The post-darling complex is categorised under a broad spectrum, which contains varying symptoms each to varying degrees. There are three post-darling types, though within these brackets there is no concrete type. It depends on several things: the original status of the darling, the reason they were exiled, and how the darling responds to all of this. The darling can either embrace the dreg lifestyle, try to seize power back through force, or outright deny their exile or that they were exiled because of a conspiracy against them.

101) Darlings are exiled when they are no longer relevant to society and its trends, or no longer act like the archetypal darling. Some darlings rebel and walk out on their lucrative position and their authority. More often than not, they are removed by pop-culturalists desperate to remove a body or two to save their own skin, regardless of any trend.

102) The darling that embraces the dreg lifestyle is finally free from ignorance, but only from the ignorance of high society. The fallen darling will inevitably acquire the ignorance of the bottomless pit of society. With this, they will either be revered by dregs or panned by association with their former lives. It can be said that darlings find it a shock to have to work hard at being liked by the dregs. Some darlings are renowned for being compulsive liars, and dregs never forget this on the darling's way down.

103) Darlings never sense when they are in decline until it's nearly too late. I place emphasis on "nearly", because a darling can survive their exile by purging the others. The problem with this is that exclusion becomes the norm and consumes the darling with paranoia, which is why it was mentioned in part one that the darling is possessed with paranoia. 

104) On the opposite end, a darling who has been thrown out of their circle of friends before being able to detect it will try to force themselves back into the pseudo-society, only to find that it has moved almost light years since their departure. At the same time, despite clouds moving at hyper levels of speed, minds remain as they always have been. At once, too fast and too slow. Who can live with that contradiction?

105) Oh, I adore it when a darling becomes all they used to despise. I adore poetic justice. They soon have to face what they've always feared: not loved, not hated. Ignored. Ignored by the ignored, which is a fate worse than death to them.

106) The darling who denies only makes it worse for themselves, in particular those who insist everyone else has exiled themselves, leaving only the darling as a despot over air. They interrupt conversations, still expecting a greeting or even a few words. They fight for attention, something handed to them by salivating masses. Some of these darlings deny it when forced to co-exist with a dreg.

107) Denial does not aid any situation, especially in the presence of truth. This isn't in relation to absolute truths, mind you. This is in relation to relative truth in that particular social situation. Denial only works in denying the existence or presence of something which is a blatant fabrication. This can be confusing, but it is necessary to learn.

108) The pop-culturalists are the true victims of the post-darling complex, as darlings- especially after misfortune and ridicule- are meticulous and calculating attackers. They become vigilantes to reclaim their statuses after their fall from grace. Then again, pop-culturalists may have replaced that particular darling and have thus inherited the same Stalinist outlook of others. It comes on like a switch; it's an automatic feeling, as if it were always hidden beneath the surface before the realization of absolute power. What happens next is a matter of probability.

109) We empathise with heroism and revenge, but I will have to disappoint those thirsty for justice. Darlings, the ones who seek revenge, uproaring the kingdom of Heaven, will always have their mutinies, and their rebellions, crushed. 

110) The newest darlings, the former pop-culturalists who know the pseudo-society inside out, are faster and smarter than the basic, bitter post-darling. They are dull, former darlings, but dregs they are not. Please, do not assume so! They lack the stomach to truly commit to the dreg's lifestyle, because- ultimately, as it seems- darlings are conditioned to be afraid of dregs, to the point of comedic pity.

111) The matters of inclusion and exclusion, satire or pop-culture plagiarism, no longer are of any interest to the morose post-darling. Their demise becomes at once a throbbing, obvious pain and the elephant in the room.

112) The post-darling, in relation to the pseudo-society, is spat out by the forces who aided them in the first place. However, they can be relevant in the society of neutrality, if only they accept the reality of what has happened and move on. Moving on eventually is a fundamental aim to existing beyond the society only by name.