Comments on: Collective consciousness: con job for the ages

By: penniewoodfall

penniewoodfall — Sun, 03 Dec 2017 17:00:47 +0000

The black sheep finds itself very odd among the others…our interest lies in the individual,the rebel with an inkling.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:08:52 +0000

“Can you imagine Harvard endowing a chair in Individual Power?” Unfortunately, yes I can, if it be tagged with additional qualifiers having to do with identity politics.

And, while collective consciousness does not seem to exist (I believe), collective delusions seem to exist, in a big way. Collective delusions? vaccination, global warming, etc. Collective but not universal.

By: truth1

truth1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 04:19:16 +0000

A lot of wisdom in your post, Kensho.

By: truth1

truth1 — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 04:14:59 +0000

Like you Afshin N. I have deep respect for the individual and his importance in our species. But really, unless all in the species appreciate their responsibility to the whole, as well as themselves and their own families. The individual is helpless in the face of being far out numbered, unless perhaps there was a God who was over all that species and overcome the many against the one or few. If not God, then I am afraid the individual’s days are numbered.

As far as individual’s growth and progress, growth and progress can really only be made by individuals for if a mentor were to come along, he could not a person unless that person was willing and open to helping themselves and giving consideration to what a mentor might suggest.

By: prof605

prof605 — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 01:45:41 +0000

Please go to part 2 of this post (link at foot of jons post) at a guess only 1 out of 6 readers have done this based on 18 likes for this post, 3 likes for part 2?

Completely agree, we learned better as infants, compared to the learning hampered by peer prssure & a skewed education system geared to making us compliant cogs for industry & top down government. You can bet the blue chip schools ain’t teaching common core!

By: Chiclette

Chiclette — Fri, 27 Oct 2017 01:37:49 +0000

I agree and appreciate that Ayn Rand foresaw this sentiment back in the 40s and 50s to write great novels covering this exact subject.

By: Sovereign Ag

Sovereign Ag — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 19:02:43 +0000

But this also is a great opportunity and challenge for those of us brighter, to guide the group and encourage them to participate and show them the reward of diligence self discipline and their own, individual gifts and talents to create something greater than themselves. It can be done, you just have to have great compassion, inner strength and understanding for their peasant upbringing and the ignorant care givers they had.

I never believe in only this or that. A person of power always knows there is a c or d or e or f ……option, that anything is possible. We are only limited by our own beliefs if we dwell in the mind, which is finite, instead of our heart and soul, which is a part of All That Is, the place of all possibility. We all have a choice which world to be in.

The time of the lowest common denominator never lasts, it always implodes and self destructs, for it is against Nature, Self and God.

By: Afshin Nejat

Afshin Nejat — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 16:17:29 +0000

The individual is the first and foremost column supporting society as a whole, indeed the pre-eminent power supporting the whole world, and the 5th column is his arch enemy.

By: D3F1ANT

D3F1ANT — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:25:03 +0000

I don’t always agree with you, but this one is spot on…

By: craig r

craig r — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 08:45:24 +0000

I’ve been reading your post for some time, Jon, and this is one of the best!!!