06-01-2021
The collective unconscious has hacked the individual subconsciousness (the secondary consciousness), which in turn has taken over the individual consciousness (the primary consciousness). The ego (the inauthentic and soulless self) is the placeholder of the secondary consciousness within the primary consciousness.
Since as such the ego is the collective unconscious placed inside the primary individual consciousness, the ego is psychologically a collectivist (a dweller of a hive mind) and ideologically prone to collectivism of one kind or another.
As the psychologist Boris Sidis first identified: “Mob-energy rises as the powers of the mass.” Whereas the masses increase in an arithmetical progression, the energies of the masses increase in a geometrical progression. That is, the masses grow as the logarithms of their energies. Ergo, if M is the mass of the mob, then M = Log E.
The more you partake of a more massive crowd, whether actually or virtually, the more the secondary sub-awake subconsciousness, and hence the more the collective unconscious, will take over your psyche and consciousness, and the more you will succumb to the dictate of the hive mind and herd energy.
Therefore, every day or night, leave the crowd, find a space and time for solitude, be alone in the universe with your primary self, and think authentically for yourself. In other words, make a habit of meditating and contemplating by yourself.