While I personal do not prescribe to this motto, I can see how through statist upbringing, this can become ingrained into our consciousness. Does the many actually know your needs better than you? Are their needs worth more than yours? Individuals can work within a group, for a common goal or purpose, but are those other individuals more important than you? To some it seems impossible to believe that you are equally as important as the collective. You. Like the Star Trek gif above says: If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

What is your nationality? Where you are from? What high school or college did you go to? Are you a Democrat or Republican? How do you feel about Women Rights, Gay Rights, and the rights of the minorities in general?

I asked about the above questions because people ask those to label in their mind and sometimes yours which part of the collective you belong to. We are taught early on through statism, that we must petition the collective for the equality granted by that collective. People pose the question of group rights, to allow that state the final authority in what is best for the individual. In varying degrees, every political system, and every question I asked above is collectivist in nature. We learn that we all fall into a group. The groupthink mentality teaches us that state may rightfully preempt the decision-making authority of individuals.

When we learn in the beginning about politics, we learn that there is a Right and Left way of voting, or liberal and conservative. If you don’t fall in line with one then you can vote for the other. But what happens when you think that both parties are two-heads of the same coin, or maybe your beliefs fall in some ways conservative in some issues and liberal in other? People then resort to picking the lesser of two evils.

We learn about groups, and what groups are aligned to your own beliefs, but never about the individual. Groups and Parties want to garner support from the individual and thrive on getting the individual to align themselves with their interest. This is done through propaganda.

To quote H.L. Mencken, “My last words on the gallows will be to condemn collectivism in all of its forms.”

All political systems are dependent upon the generation of mass-minded thinking, to persuade each of us to lose our sense of individuality and responsibility to the collective herd. We condition our minds to accept identities for ourselves, to think of ourselves not as self-directed, self-responsible beings, but as members of various groups, whose interests are not only mutually exclusive, but antagonistic. Whether we identify ourselves by race, religion, nationality, lifestyle, ideology, economic interests, gender, geography, or any other category, we put ourselves into a state of conflict with others. Political systems then promise to protect us from “them,“ and most of us are too dull to recognize that our alleged “protectors” are the very ones who induced us to play the games that now threaten us!

Look at the consequences of losing our sense of individuality in collective herds. Events in your daily life should confirm to you that individuals are generally more decent, peaceful, cooperative, loving, and humane than are political collectives. It should be clear to you that all political systems depend upon a modus operandi that is completely contrary to what most of us experience with other individuals; methodologies that none of us would tolerate from friends, associates, or even strangers. Politics attracts and mobilizes the basest qualities of humanity: a penchant for coercion, intimidation, warfare, and deceit; a willingness to destroy others; and an obsession with forcibly controlling the lives of others.

History revealed to us how easily the “dark side” of our unconscious minds can be energized toward violent and destructive ends. Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and American lynch mobs demonstrated how easy it is to manipulate herd-oriented people. It is the individual who is difficult to control.

Stereotypes also follow this group mentality, Asians are great in math, the poor are lazy, so on and so forth, but we all know that’s not the case in which every single individual is like a snowflake, and different than the rest.

It doesn’t start with changing the minds of the group or raging against the machine of the republic, the only mind you have to change is the only one that matters, you, the individual.

I will leave you with a quote from Neo from the Matrix, “I know you’re out there. I can feel you now. I know that you’re afraid… You’re afraid of change. I don’t know the future. I didn’t come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it’s going to begin. I’m going to hang up this phone, and then I’m going to show these people what you don’t want them to see. I’m going to show them a world without you. A world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries. A world where anything is possible. Where you go from here is a choice I leave to you.”

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