Thank you for this sober, eloquent, powerful, heartbreaking essay. "The person who slides into mass formation has already chosen death; the death of all others and their own death." This truth is validating and very sad. I pray for sanity and a non-violent resolution.
Thank you for this sober, eloquent, powerful, heartbreaking essay. "The person who slides into mass formation has already chosen death; the death of all others and their own death." This truth is validating and very sad. I pray for sanity and a non-violent resolution.
The stench of death hangs over the West. The destruction of the past, the frightening insecurity of the future, the loneliness, the emotional poverty, the financialization of everything, the utter demoralization: the thought of our deaths, as long as everyone else dies, as long as everything is destroyed, is a relief.
Mattias is correct, because when one chooses to join the mass-collective, one sacrifices one's personal-individual Identity in exchange for group Identity. One's individual Identity fuses-merges with the Identity of the Group-Mass. One sacrifices critical-independent thinking, all thinking, ideas, the SELF. This is the death of the SELF. All members of the mass have likewise chosen SELF suicide, and attempt to force others to make the same choice, because of the inevitable self-doubt, and negative self-image resulting from this modus-operandi. Forcing the Divergents to be like themselves builds positive self-image. Their psychology becomes analogous to that of a herd of Buffalo being driven over the cliff by the Indians at Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump at Alberta Canada. If even one Buffalo wanted to stop and think for a minute, he or she was forced into compliance by the mass.
Thank you for this sober, eloquent, powerful, heartbreaking essay. "The person who slides into mass formation has already chosen death; the death of all others and their own death." This truth is validating and very sad. I pray for sanity and a non-violent resolution.
The stench of death hangs over the West. The destruction of the past, the frightening insecurity of the future, the loneliness, the emotional poverty, the financialization of everything, the utter demoralization: the thought of our deaths, as long as everyone else dies, as long as everything is destroyed, is a relief.
Mattias is correct, because when one chooses to join the mass-collective, one sacrifices one's personal-individual Identity in exchange for group Identity. One's individual Identity fuses-merges with the Identity of the Group-Mass. One sacrifices critical-independent thinking, all thinking, ideas, the SELF. This is the death of the SELF. All members of the mass have likewise chosen SELF suicide, and attempt to force others to make the same choice, because of the inevitable self-doubt, and negative self-image resulting from this modus-operandi. Forcing the Divergents to be like themselves builds positive self-image. Their psychology becomes analogous to that of a herd of Buffalo being driven over the cliff by the Indians at Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump at Alberta Canada. If even one Buffalo wanted to stop and think for a minute, he or she was forced into compliance by the mass.
Very thoughtful..RIGHT ON.