Mass Mind Brain Damage
Not just personal brain damage, not just one individual brain damage.
Brain damage of entire groups, mass mind brain damage. Mass man brain damage.
Reference:
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“The Galaxy Reconfigured or the Plight of Mass Man in an Individualist Society” - Marshall McLuhan
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“Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century” - Howard Bloom
“Along with ideological indoctrination, a vital factor touched upon but not fully explored in Milgram’s experiments was conformity to the group. The battalion had orders to kill Jews, but each individual did not. Yet 80 to 90 percent of the men proceeded to kill, though almost all of them—at least initially—were horrified and disgusted by what they were doing. To break ranks and step out, to adopt overtly nonconformist behavior, was simply beyond most of the men. It was easier for them to shoot.” ― Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, 1992
“Segmented, routinized, and depersonalized, the job of the bureaucrat or specialist—whether it involved confiscating property, scheduling trains, drafting legislation, sending telegrams, or compiling lists—could be performed without confronting the reality of mass murder.” ― Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.” ― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz
It’s the culture.
The essential idea in Patterns of Culture is, according to the foreword by Margaret Mead, “her view of human cultures as ‘personality writ large.’” Each culture, Benedict explains, chooses from “the great arc of human potentialities” only a few characteristics which become the leading personality traits of the persons living in that culture.
