Where do you fit?

"To ripen a person for self-sacrifice he must be
stripped of his individual identity and
distinctness. He must cease to be George, Hans,
Ivan or Tadao- a human atom with an existence
bounded by birth and death. The most drastic way
to achieve this end is by complete assimilation
of the individual into a collective body. The
fully assimilated individual does not see himself
and others as human beings. When asked who he is,
his automatic response is that he is a German, a
Russian, a Japanese, a Christian, a Moslem, a
member of a certain tribe or family. He has no
purpose, worth and destiny apart from his
collective body; and as long as that body lives
he cannot really die." -- Eric Hoffer

I've posted this before on my previous blog. I
bring it up again because I think it's the disease-
possibly terminal-of the human race.

Why, you say?

If you're part of one of these collectives you
think along the collective (party) line, questioning
the collective group think little if at all. And
if you do you're easily dissuaded or intimidated.
The name of the collective is irrelevent.

When some leader steps forth, you follow without
thinking, translike.

The crowd and its feelings reign. Damn, it's so
contagious.

The individual mind shuts down.

The emotions rule. The leader knows how to orchestrate
these, or he wouldn't be a leader.

He plays on fear and your desire to be told what
to do because so few like to exercise independent
judgment. After all, I could be wrong, says the
follower, not knowing leaders are just as humanly
fallable. It's so easy to be assimilated.

Is that what you want?

The Borg or The I.

Your choice.

The process is very subtle. Few see it when emotions
predominate.

Think about it.