Mass emotion

Once conformity is generated as a usable means of dealing with the vagaries of life, personal emotion is necessarily distanced.  The sense of self that attends paying attention to and valuing your own unique way of seeing and interacting with the world vanishes, and in its place comes a tyrannical hatred of common people.  You are better than them.

I look at the oceans of people Hitler gathered unto himself–the God–and feel their sense of absorption, but also feel the SUPERFICIALITY of that emotion.  Grand as it must have felt at times to be submerged in something epochal–and it clearly was that–I get in my imagination this itching, this nagging, this nattering in the back of the head, this sense that won’t go away that something has died or is dying, that can only be cured by re-immersion in groupthink, or what might better be called GroupFeel (which I double capitalized as it does sound like a swingers party): Groupemote, perhaps.

We want feeling.  Ways of thinking conduce to this.  Leftist patterns of GroupThink are oriented around the FEELING of belonging.  But it is a superficial feeling.  It doesn’t last.  It has to be constantly renewed, constantly sourced.  That is why leftists are so good at forming groups and at making all members do the same things at the same time.  It is an inherent advantage, in some ways, but the downside is that none of those people is acting as an independent perceptual unit, outside of the perceptual tasks assigned by the group.  This makes the whole stupid.  But if they can get and keep power, then stupid can live a very long life indeed.