So regarding Matthais Desment, here's some ideas based upon study and research going back to Freud, Jung, and even earlier. My point is I'm not making this stuff up in my head. It was said before I was born.
"A mass is a group that is formed because all individuals separately connect to the collective." No no no. There is no such thing as an individual being in any way part of a collective. This is not about the label "individual" but the state of being, the mind.
Forget about the Marxists, technocrats for a minute. Most people have never been an individual in their life. They go along with the crowd, from their friends to their parents, from TV, movies, mainstream, to social media. These people do NOT want to DEVELOP their own decisions let alone "make" them. To these sheep, "making" a decision is only a selection. They were not part of "thinking" to get to that point.
Most can't even follow what I am talking about because they have never done it, and the habit to RIDICULE the unknown is too strong. I get ridiculed all the time. Everybody tells me they are an individual. They BELIEVE an individual = a SINGLE HUMAN. WRONG WRONG WRONG.
If people can't get past that, they ARE in "massformation" which used to be known as "conformity trance". This non-individual is the false self, the pseudo self.
It can't be told or shown, it can only realize for itself. Ayn Rand, Bruce Lee would discuss this. People avoid Rand's work like the plague. Why? Ridicule and fear.
Also we can't have a discussion on her work without understanding that the terms she used are not the same as today's "terms".
Also one just can't "read" Rand's work...they have to "apply" it, use it, test it out. Being alone and loneliness are not the same thing.
So regarding Matthais Desment, here's some ideas based upon study and research going back to Freud, Jung, and even earlier. My point is I'm not making this stuff up in my head. It was said before I was born.
"A mass is a group that is formed because all individuals separately connect to the collective." No no no. There is no such thing as an individual being in any way part of a collective. This is not about the label "individual" but the state of being, the mind.
Forget about the Marxists, technocrats for a minute. Most people have never been an individual in their life. They go along with the crowd, from their friends to their parents, from TV, movies, mainstream, to social media. These people do NOT want to DEVELOP their own decisions let alone "make" them. To these sheep, "making" a decision is only a selection. They were not part of "thinking" to get to that point.
Most can't even follow what I am talking about because they have never done it, and the habit to RIDICULE the unknown is too strong. I get ridiculed all the time. Everybody tells me they are an individual. They BELIEVE an individual = a SINGLE HUMAN. WRONG WRONG WRONG.
If people can't get past that, they ARE in "massformation" which used to be known as "conformity trance". This non-individual is the false self, the pseudo self.
It can't be told or shown, it can only realize for itself. Ayn Rand, Bruce Lee would discuss this. People avoid Rand's work like the plague. Why? Ridicule and fear.
Also we can't have a discussion on her work without understanding that the terms she used are not the same as today's "terms".
Also one just can't "read" Rand's work...they have to "apply" it, use it, test it out. Being alone and loneliness are not the same thing.
So I disagree. "Loneliness" isn't the problem. Not practicing psychology, philosophy, every day, and applying it to how one lives their life--has ALWAYS been the problem. Start with THIS http://aynrandlexicon.com/ayn-rand-works/philosophy-who-needs-it.html