Old modes (expressions) of lemming-like behavior are constantly being replaced by new ones. The type of cliffs off of which the blind lemmings jump changes but the fact that they jump remains a constant. Yes, humans stopped sacrificing goats and virgins few centuries ago but most of them still believe in a bearded God, a nation, a class, a union, a war, an ethnicity, a culture, a sports team. The majority of humanity is still willing to put on a uniform and hurrah across the field behind a tribal parasite carrying a flag, any flag. The drive to belong, to be a part of something larger than oneself is just burned too deep into the human genome.
I’m still here because this forum has the largest concentration of individuals belonging to the other 1% of humanity – the statistical aberation, if you will. By no means am I advocating that you stop agitating and educating. That’s the only hope. But don’t for a moment delude yourself that you can “re-engineer” Man. We (the 1% aberation) are literally slaves to this collectivist force of nature (the blob), just like we’re “slaves” to gravity. The only things we could expect to achieve is maximize freedom within these constraints over whose existence, I’m afraid, we don’t have much say.
Z.