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i was browsing my kindle unread books and came across thisš³
describing how and why we are where we are as a species.
"in mass phenomena the illusory elation is as transient as that induced by hypnosis;
it does not impress itself upon the conscious mind by bringing it to a creative synthesis, but leaks away like any other momentary intoxication.
Yet even this delusive frenzy of mass possession is zealously desired by an ego emptied of all meaning,
and is one of the chief allurements with which the mass hypnotist successfully operates."
"Modern mass propaganda seeksāin part quite consciouslyā
to restore the old group unity and the mutual projections of the participants,"
"Creative evolution of ego consciousness means that, through a continuous process stretching over thousands of years,
the conscious system has absorbed more and more unconscious contents and progressively extended its frontiers."
"The creativity of consciousness may be jeopardized by religious or political totalitarianism,
for any authoritarian fixation of the canon leads to sterility of consciousness.
Such fixations, however, can only be provisional.
So far as Western man is concerned, the assimilative vitality of his ego consciousness is more or less assured.
The individual is the bearer of this creative activity of the mind and therefore
remains the decisive factor in all future Western developments."