Who are "They?"

[Richard Fiero]

alice wellintown wrote:
>Re-read "The Law of Acceleration", that's chapter 34 of The Education.
>They are not the force, but those who claim to or pretend to weild it.
>After the Virgin, there is no unity. But We crave Unity. We expect
>that Benny, a volunteer, won't get paid for his job hunting gators.
>But he does. Contradiction? Sure.
>
>According to Pynchon  there is a drive within us to establish systems
>at the expense of differentiation.
. . .
Not sure what is meant by "systems at the expense of differentiation" 
unless it maps to regularity (conformity?) at the expense of individuality.