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''We understand he survived the ultimate test. Then he must no longer be referred to as "Number Six" or a number of any kind. He has gloriously vindicated the right of the individual to be individual. And this Assembly rises to you... Sir.''

Now, not all of this subtext is anti-society, anarchistic. This is all about what happens when society falls and is corrupted in order to follow the whims of an individual. Of a man who rises above his fellow men not to guide them to prosperity, but to guide himself into prosperity while leading his people to doom and fear in order to perpetuate the aforementioned prosperity. The Village disguises this with "happiness" while taking away the basical spiritual needs of men in order to break them and in that way obtain the information it so desires.

 

 

''Numbers in a village that is a complete unit of our own society. A place to put people who can't be kept around. People who know too much or too little. A place with many means of breaking a man.''

Of course, we don't know the specific motivation of the actions behind the Village. For all we know, Number Six was a terrorist planning to hijack every country's nuclear missiles and shoot everything just because. For all we know, every member in the Village was a terrorist, spy or a serial killer. But we don't know this and there's no reason to assume this. What we do know is that the Village's methods are inhuman, that their intention with said methods is sadistic at worst and pragmatical at best and that this is a society that claims to care for every man and woman who lives under it. But it's not true. This is a society who only cares to break these men and women in order to further protect its government and leader

 

 

''We are honoured to have with us a revolutionary of a different calibre. He has revolted. Resisted. Fought. Held fast. Maintained. Destroyed resistance. Overcome coercion. The right to be a Person, Someone, or Individual. We applaud his private war and concede that despite materialistic efforts he has survived intact and secure. All that remains is recognition of a Man.''

This is also a story about a man fighting gigantic white balls, so take all of this with a grain of salt.