The Individual and the Collectivity

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Many Studies have been done and
real life examples have shown

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the power of a body of people
focused on a particular feeling

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thought or action mob.
Psychology shows that

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individuals who otherwise might
be seen as quiet and peaceful

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can be riled up into paroxysm
zuv anger.

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When part of an Angry Crowd, it
is this type of psychology that

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turns ordinary People into
Savage beasts when they are

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demagogued and harangue to stoke
the force of anger.

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There are also instances of
religious bigotry or racism

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being played out using a similar
tactic of mobilizing, the force

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of the crowd to overturn the
individuals, own balance and

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normal ways of seeing things.
In his book, 1984 George.

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Orwell Illustrated this with
what?

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He called the two minutes.
Hate where everyone's emotions

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were whipped up to an extreme
degree to hate a particular

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object to which the state was
directing the attention of the

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citizens.
We see similar things in some of

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the political rallies that take
place in the world today when a

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particular individual or group
is demonized and the mob Made to

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believe that only violent
resistance or action is possible

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to solve the situation.
The mob can then be directed

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toward the object of the hatred.
So raised and Chaos, will then

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insu.
There are, of course, also,

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positive aspects of a collective
emotion such as when devotees

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joined together in devotion and
create a positive atmosphere.

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The issue is not that Crowds Are
Always destructive, rather than

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if a participant is not
sufficiently conscious and

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self-developed, he can more
easily be brought under control,

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of whatever force is working
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The throng, we have seen the
evolution from a tribal society,

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which is necessarily a
collective Endeavor to a more

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individualistic development as
seen in the modern civilization.

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This Transition was necessary,
so that each individual can

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reach an Optimum development.
It was however, not intended to

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destroy the sense of community,
but uplifted to a new level.

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We're conscious individuals can
join voluntarily together in a

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collective effort without
thereby needing to erase their

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unique individuality and
abilities.

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The collectivity is naturally
conservative and relies on.

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Traditions mores.
And habits of the collective

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group, the individual can
provide the impetus and capacity

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to bring new forces, energies,
and movements of Consciousness

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into being and there by uplift,
the collectivity to a new level.

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The two forces need to find
their Harmony balance and

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appropriate relation to one.
Another such that progress can

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be made without the destruction
of the collectivities.

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The centrifugal and centripetal
forces must find their balance.

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The mother notes quote, to be
individualized in a

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collectivities.
One must be absolutely conscious

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of one's self the self, which is
above all.

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Inter mixture, the truth of your
being and as long as you are not

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conscious of the truth of your
being you are moved by all kinds

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of things without taking any
note of it at all Collective.

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Thought Collective suggestions
are a formidable influence,

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which act currently on
individual thought to escape

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this there is but one means to
become conscious of oneself more

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and more conscious SRI aurobindo
continues quote in the crowd,

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the individual loses, his inner
Direction and becomes a cell of

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the mass body moved by the
collective, will or idea or the

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mass impulse.
He has to stand apart affirm,

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his separate reality in the
whole, his own mind emerging

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from the common mentality.
His own life distinguishing

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itself in the common life,
uniformity even as his body has

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developed some Nothing unique
and recognizable in the common

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physicality nature invented the
ego that the individual might

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disengage himself from the in
conscience or sub conscience of

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the mass and become an
independent.

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Living mind, life, power Soul
Spirit, coordinating himself

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with the world around him but
not drowned in it.

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For the individual, is indeed
part of the cosmic being, but he

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is also, something more uses
soul that has descended from the

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Transcendence.
This he cannot manifest at once

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because he is too near to the
cosmic in conscience.

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Not near enough to the original
Super conscience.

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He has to find himself as the
mental, and vital ego before he

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can find himself as the soul or
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End quote, reference 3
aurobindo, and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development, chapter 1

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emergence from unconsciousness
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